Installing Portainer on nixOS Latest

Portainer is a useful container management tool that provides a user-friendly interface for managing Docker containers on your system. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Portainer on nixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure that you have a running instance of nixOS Latest and Docker installed on your system.

Step 1: Install Portainer

To install Portainer on nixOS Latest, you can use the package manager nix. Run the following command to install the latest version of Portainer:

sudo nix-env -i portainer

Step 2: Create a Docker volume for Portainer

Portainer uses persistent data to store its configuration and state. Therefore, we need to create a Docker volume for Portainer. Run the following command to create a new Docker volume:

sudo docker volume create portainer_data

Step 3: Start Portainer container

Now, we can start the Portainer container using the following command:

sudo docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

We have mapped the Portainer container's internal port 9000 to the host port 9000, so you can access the Portainer web interface by navigating to http://localhost:9000 in your web browser.

The --restart always option ensures that the Portainer container starts automatically after a system reboot.

Step 4: Access Portainer web interface

Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:9000. You should see the Portainer web interface, where you can start managing your Docker containers.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have explained how to install Portainer on nixOS Latest. Now that you have Portainer up and running, you can start managing your Docker containers with ease.