Container Management with Portainer

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In this episode, Bret is joined by Portainer's co-founder and CEO, Neil Cresswell, to get an update on their product. If you haven't heard of Portainer, it's one of the original web apps to manage Docker, then swarm, and now Kubernetes.
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In this episode, Bret is joined by Portainer's co-founder and CEO, Neil Cresswell, to get an update on their product. If you haven't heard of Portainer, it's one of the original web apps to manage Docker, then swarm and now Kubernetes. This is one of Bret's top 10 tools for consideration to manage your container environments. Neil will show off the latest from Portainer.io. Streamed live on YouTube on February 3, 2022.

Unedited live recording of the complete show on YouTube (Ep #157). Includes demos.

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  • (00:00) - DDT MAIN
  • (00:04) - Template intro
  • (00:55) - Bret custom intro
  • (02:08) - Live show
  • (02:56) - How did Portainer come about?
  • (07:26) - Portainer elevator pitch
  • (08:52) - How long has Portainer been around?
  • (09:43) - Open Source or Community Edition
  • (10:35) - How do you run it?
  • (11:18) - Portainer vs Swarm
  • (16:05) - Demo Multipass
  • (17:49) - Where does Portainer run?
  • (18:47) - Demo
  • (21:21) - Question
  • (22:23) - Question + Demo
  • (23:37) - Metrics are not stored
  • (25:04) - Demo
  • (25:47) - What stores is Portainer available in?
  • (26:32) - Templates
  • (27:30) - Question comparing to Rancher
  • (29:47) - Demo
  • (30:22) - What is gitops?
  • (31:51) - Don't put Kubernetes on the internet
  • (33:10) - Application deployment
  • (34:12) - Demo in response to question
  • (35:47) - The change window + question
  • (38:28) - Question, sort of
  • (40:40) - Protections and read-only
  • (42:21) - Question
  • (42:37) - Question
  • (49:40) - Questione
  • (50:44) - Question
  • (51:33) - What good is a CLI?
  • (52:22) - Creating clusters on cloud providers
  • (55:17) - Docker and Kubernetes at the edge
  • (58:38) - Podcast, events
  • (59:26) - What's coming up?
  • (01:00:42) - Show winding down

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Creators and Guests

Bret Fisher
Host
Bret Fisher
Cloud native DevOps Dude. Course creator, YouTuber, Podcaster. Docker Captain and CNCF Ambassador. People person who spends too much time in front of a computer.
Beth Fisher
Producer
Beth Fisher
Producer of the DevOps and Docker Talk and Agentic DevOps podcasts. Assistant producer on Bret Fisher Live show on YouTube. Business and proposal writer by trade.
Cristi Cotovan
Editor
Cristi Cotovan
Video editor and educational content producer. Descript and Camtasia coach.
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