41.00 Setting up a VPS

VPS means Virtual Private Server.

I myself use Contabo.

Creating containers etc.

To find out how to create containers etc / where to continue from here. go to the 41.01 Portainer containers

connect

this article says we should download PuTTY to connect to our Linux VPS. You only need to enter the ip and click connect.

U can also do it with PowerShell, I use it, but u have to activate it in an ancient part of windows

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(pasting in a console is right click, not ctrl+v)

install portainer

Installing docker

If you don’t have docker yet, run apt install docker.io

portainer documentation

I followed this video:

1. apt update to look for updates
2. apt dist-upgrade to update packages or the system, idk
3. you might have to install docker if you don’t have it already
4. docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce
5. open the webbrowser and goto <ipAdress>:9000
6. create your administrator account (and save it)

Updating Portainer on install

Now weirdly enough this doesn’t take the latest version of portainer. So I recommend using the update steps below.

updating portainer

Important

Starting from Portainer CE 2.9 and BE 2.10, HTTPS is enabled by default on port 9443. These instructions will configure Portainer to use 9443 for HTTPS and do not expose 9000 for HTTP. If you need to retain HTTP access, you can add:

-p 9000:9000

to your command.

You can also choose to completely disable HTTP after the update. Before you make Portainer HTTPS only, make sure you have all your Agents and Edge Agents already communicating with Portainer using HTTPS.

Warning

Before beginning any update, Portainer devs highly recommend taking a backup of your current Portainer configuration.

Even though portainer is a docker container itself, so everything should go without errors, and your other containers should keep running whilst migrating. The keyword is Should, since you never know if something unlikely will occur.

That being said, I used contabo’s snapshot to back it up, and not portainers backup method.

based on this article.

Info

I, the auther of this article, assume that u use the community edition of portainer. If you don’t, visit the url above to find the correct counterparts of step 4 and 5.

1. Go back to the console (if you left it)
2. run docker stop portainer
3. run docker rm portainer
4. run docker pull portainer/portainer-ce:latest
5. run docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest