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CREATE A CONTAINER IN PORTAINER
Looking to pull images from sources other than the official DockerHub? Navigate to Registries under Settings and click Add registry to do so. Six providers can be added quickly, including an authenticated DockerHub account, or you can add your own secure custom registry.
If you’ve installed Docker across multiple machines, then it can provide you with a single portal for viewing and managing them all. When first installed, it should automatically detect your ‘local’ Docker instance (click Get Started to begin), but you’ll also see an option to add other environments too.
If you plan to access Portainer over the wider network, we recommend doing so using a reverse proxy such as Swag (https://docs. linuxserver. io/general/ swag). Swag comes with its own Portainer conf file – see https:// github.com/ linuxserver/ reverse-proxyconfs.
Docker supports a range of networks for your containers to use. The two main ones are the default ‘bridge’ and a direct ‘host’ connection that binds your container to your host’s IP address. Configuring these – and other options, including user-defined bridge connections, as explained in detail at https://docs.docker.com/network– is tricky at the best of times, but thankfully Portainer has you and your containers covered.
Take the time to familiarise yourself with all of Portainer’s features and settings by bookmarking https://docs. portainer. io. Choose ‘Portainer Community Edition’ and you’ll be shown the current version’s documentation.
1 Configure volumes