CREATE A CONTAINER IN PORTAINER

1 Configure volumes

If you’ve not yet done so, visit Volumes to set up any required volumes you’ll need for your container. After giving your volume a suitably descriptive name, click ‘add driver option’ to set one or more mountpoints (name) and their physical location on your drive (host). You can optionally restrict access to the volume by user and/or team. Click ‘Create the volume’.

3 Configure network ports

Portainer can randomly allocate unused host ports to your container. Simply flick the switch to do so; otherwise, click ‘publish a new network port’ to manually map ports if required. Below this is an Access Control section that enables you to restrict access to administrators or a defined set of users and/or teams (these need to be configured under Settings>Users).

2 Choose container image

Navigate to Containers and click Add Container. Give your container a suitably descriptive name and then search the DockerHub registry for the application in question. If you’re not sure what it’s called, enter a keyword into the Image box and click Search to open a new tab. Locate your chosen image (such as linuxserver/airsonic) and enter its name into the Image box.

4 Advanced container settings

This series of tabs enables you to specify other parts of your container. Many are self-explanatory (Volumes refers to the -v tag, Env to -e variables, and so on). Network allows you to connect the container to the network as required – bridge by default, but container, host and none are also available. Consult the container’s own web page for full instructions. Click ‘Deploy the container’.