Portainer

… is a web-based graphical interface to manage your containers. In all honesty, better than Docker Desktop. Should be ideal for managing in a headless server environment. However, Docker Desktop on Linux does come with that handy kubernetes switch which auto-deploys a cluster with all the necessary components for dev purposes.

Adapted from Portainer’s official documentation

• Convenience one-liner

  docker volume create portainer_data && 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-ee:latest
  

• Create volume

  docker volume create portainer_data
  

• Start the Portainer Server container

  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-ee:latest
  

  Note: If you are deploying the Community Edition instead, change portainer/portainer-ee to portainer/portainer-ce

• Server is live at: https://localhost:9443