Category: Containers

Deploying a complex Docker stack isn’t nearly as challenging as you think, at least when Portainer is your GUI of choice. Find out how easy this is with Portainer templates. Image: BalanceFormCreative/Adobe Stock When you think of deploying a full-stack, containerized application, you probably expect it to be a tedious and complicated task of manually…

Instead of keeping Secrets in Kubernetes manifests, store them separately. Portainer makes this quite simple; I’ll show you how in this tutorial. Image: tostphoto/Adobe Stock When you’re building and deploying Kubernetes services and pods, you sometimes have to use a secret, such as a password, an API key or a third-party access token. You certainly…

If you’ve deployed Portainer as a Kubernetes development platform and want to add a different environment, you’re in luck — the process is quite simple. portainer-add-development-environment Recently, I outlined how to deploy Portainer to a MicroK8s Kubernetes cluster. The process is surprisingly easy and goes a long way to strip the complications from Kubernetes. That…

With Portainer, deploying Kubernetes services with Helm charts is as simple as it gets. Find out how it’s done. Image: Song_about_summer/Adobe Stock Helm was created to simplify Kubernetes; MicroK8s was created to ease the complexity of Kubernetes deployment; Portainer was created to simplify container deployment. If you put those three things together, you have the…