Now that we have Portainer running and configured to communicate with our Docker installation, we can start to work through the features listed in the left-hand side menu, starting at the top with the Dashboard, which is also the default landing page of your Portainer installation.
Using Portainer
The Dashboard
As you can see from the following screenshot, the Dashboard gives us an overview of the current state of the Docker instance that Portainer is configured to communicate with:
In my case, this shows how many Containers I have running, which at the moment is just the already running Portainer container, as well as the number of images I have downloaded. We can also see the number of Volumes and Networks available on...