Get Portainer Set Up
Secure your Portainer instance
Portainer Agent vs Edge Agent
Portainer supports a number of different connection methods for adding environments, but in a production setup we highly recommend the use of the Portainer Agent to connect. The Portainer Agent is a lightweight container that runs on your environment and facilitates the communication between the environment and the Portainer Server instance. The Portainer Agent can be deployed in two different configurations: Agent and Edge Agent, with the primary difference being how they communicate with the Portainer Server instance. The Edge agent is more ideal for remote environments outside of your network.
Find out more in our article: Standard agent vs Edge agent
Best Practice Installation Guide
If you want to run Portainer in a Production environment, it's essential that you set it up correctly. Here's our Best Practice Installation Guide that covers the 10 critical steps:
- Choosing your architecture
- Preparing your management environment
- Deploying Portainer server
- Initial setup
- Securing your installation
- Configuring access
- Adding environments
- Managing environment access
- Adding registries
- Securing your environments
Learn how to deploy your apps on Docker or Kubernetes with Portainer
In these Portainer Academy courses, learn how you can use Portainer to deploy your applications on Docker and Docker Swarm environments, or Kubernetes environments; including an introduction to containerization and real world example deployments.
Persistent Storage
Persistent storage in containerization can be a complex topic. In our article Persistent Storage: Docker Bind Mounts and Named Volumes, we look at persistent storage concepts in Docker, specifically the difference between bind mounts and named volumes.
Use Portainer as part of your CI/CD
Learn more about how you can use the Portainer GitOps engine in your development pipeline; Portainer as part of your CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes GitOps.
GitOps with Portainer using GitHub Actions
A few closing resources
This brings us to the end of our 3 nodes free onboarding program. So it's goodbye from us for now. A few parting thoughts/ resources:
- If you want to trial Portainer on more than 3 nodes; Enterprise Free Trial.
- Leave a Portainer review on G2 and claim a $25 gift card. To ensure your review is approved, please use a business email address (you can still choose to remain anonymous), and submit an original review.
- When you're ready to purchase visit our Pricing page for more options, pricing for business users starts at US$99/month.
- You can always get in touch with us via: success@portainer.io
- Your feedback is important to us, please provide your feedback via: feedback@portainer.io
