Get Portainer Set Up
A bunch of resources to help you get set up the right way, quickly.
Install Portainer
If you're a new Business Edition user
Please follow the Install Portainer Business Edition guide in our docs to ensure a successful implementation.
If you're a current CE user, upgrading from CE to BE
If you're currently using Portainer Community Edition, follow the Upgrade from Portainer CE to Business Edition guide to ensure a successful upgrade.
Secure your Portainer instance
It's really important to secure your Portainer installation properly (and it's quite easy to get it wrong), so please take a moment to check out the advice in this blog post: How to correctly secure your Portainer instance when presented on the internet.
Portainer Edge Agent vs Legacy 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 Edge Agent to connect.
The Portainer Edge Agent is a lightweight container that runs on your environment and facilitates the communication between the environment and the Portainer Server instance.
The Portainer Edge Agent and the legacy Agent are the same agent but differ in the way they communicate with the Portainer Server instance. You can learn more in our FAQ entry.
Just getting started with Kubernetes?
If Kubernetes is all seeming a bit too hard, we recommend having a look at KubeSchool. It's a free resource we developed to help you learn the concepts of Kubernetes, giving you a foundation before being thrown in the deep end with commands.
Use Portainer as part of your CI/CD
Learn more about how you can use the Portainer GitOps engine in your development pipeline through Workflows and Sources. You can learn more in our documentation.
Learn more about Portainer
Our training resource - learn.portainer.io, is a great place to dive into Portainer's features and functionality.
Dive deep into a reference enterprise Kubernetes architecture
We've built out a comprehensive enterprise reference architecture guide to help you design, deploy and govern Kubernetes at a professional level.