Using Portainer

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, as you can see from the following screenshot:

Figure 9.3 – Viewing the default page

You are first taken to the list of endpoints. As we only have our local installation, click on that and then we can start exploring.

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:

Figure 9.4 – Getting an overview

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...