Your progress

Overview

Portainer is a lightweight management UI that allows you to easily manage your different Docker environments.

Torizon comes with Portainer pre-loaded and it automatically starts after the module boot-up.

In this module you will:

• Learn how to access Portainer through a web browser
• Learn how to start a container execution using Portainer

$ Command in your PC

$$ Command inside a container in your PC

# Command in the target board, e.g. Colibri iMX6

## Command inside a container in Torizon

> Command in the Bootloader

$ Command waiting for output
Output

Prerequisites

For this Quickstart Guide:

• Development computer with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Warning: Commands and instructions may vary slightly on other Ubuntu releases and Linux distributions.
• Successfully completed the previous lessons from this guide.

Step 1

Turn on the board. After boot, the Portainer login screen will be displayed on the monitor connected to the board. On the first access, it is necessary to set a username and password.

Alternatively, a host computer connected to the same network as the module can also access Portainer through a web interface. To access it, open a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) and access the address: <your-board-ip>:8840.

• 

  Login screen

Step 2

Select the primary endpoint to access the board's container settings.

• 

  Select the primary endpoint

Step 3

Click on Containers.

• 

  Select Containers

Step 4

Click on the button "Add container".

• 

  Add a new container

Step 5

Type a name for your container. Type the following Docker image name: hello-world. Click on "Deploy the container".

• 

  New container settings

Step 6

The next screen will show the running containers. Press F5 to update the container status until your hello-world container finishes its execution and stops.

After the container stops, click on the Logs button.

• 

  Click on the Log button after the container stops

Step 7

See the container log. If you see the Hello from Docker! text, congratulations, your container has been successfully started from the Portainer interface.

• 

  Success!

The hello-world container is only a simple container used to verify if the Docker engine is working correctly in the system and if the Portainer can start a container on the board. We will build more complex containers in the next sections.

Step 8

The image TorizonCore with evaluation containers has many different demos. Explore it by going to the App Templates section in Portainer and click on one of the templates.

• 

  Available Container Examples in Portainer

• 

  Start a template using Portainer

FAQ