Getting Started with Docker..Management

Docker concepts

Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, deploy, and run applications with containers. The use of Linux containers to deploy applications is called containerization. Containers are not new, but their use for easily deploying applications is.
Containerization is increasingly popular because containers are:

• Flexible: Even the most complex applications can be containerized.
• Lightweight: Containers leverage and share the host kernel.
• Interchangeable: You can deploy updates and upgrades on-the-fly.
• Portable: You can build locally, deploy to the cloud, and run anywhere.
• Scalable: You can increase and automatically distribute container replicas.
• Stackable: You can stack services vertically and on-the-fly.

As its a trending technology I also try to learn it but I could not get much so I was looking for some thing which can help me with docker management and I can focus of writing containers and can manage them from GUI so after a search on google i came across a tool call portainer which it self is deployed on  docker but can be a great help to manage docker containers. so i started to evaluate it. Its really easy to install just install docker on host using command


# sudo apt-get install docker.io

# docker volume create portainer_data

# docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer

and your portainer get up and running in no time and you can access the same on the browser
http://:9000

You can do everything from building containers to deploying it.