Installing Portainer on macOS

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Portainer on macOS. Portainer is an open-source tool that can help you manage Docker containers and clusters easily.

Requirements

  • macOS computer with Docker installed
  • Basic understanding of Docker

Steps

  1. Open a terminal on your macOS computer.

  2. Use the following command to pull the Portainer image from Docker Hub:

docker pull portainer/portainer
  1. After the image is downloaded, create a container using this command:
docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock portainer/portainer

This command will create a new container for Portainer where the -d option ensures that the container runs in the background, -p specifies the port number, --name creates a name for the container, --restart always ensures that the container always starts when Docker is restarted, -v specifies the volume you want to mount to the container to give it access to the Docker daemon, and portainer/portainer is the name of the image we want to run.

  1. Once the container is up and running, you can access the Portainer dashboard by opening a web browser and going to http://localhost:9000.

  2. In the Portainer setup screen, select your Docker environment (in this case, Local) and click Connect.

  3. Follow the setup wizard instructions to create an admin user and configure your container management environment.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Portainer on macOS and can now manage your Docker containers and clusters with ease.