Docker Compose Repository: Portainer

This repo contains a docker compose file to deploy Portainer Community Edition

Deployment

Clone the repository
cd into the cloned folder
Deploy the stack via docker compose up -d

Updating

Since Portainer cannot manage stacks that were created outside of itself, updates must be handled separately.

The necessary steps are:

Update tag in docker-compose.yaml
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

Automatic updates via cron

This repository contains an update script for use with cron. It checks whether the remote had new commits that are not present locally. If this is the case, it pulls from remote and redeploys the stack.

For example, the following entry can be used to set up a user cron job with crontab -e, assuming that the repository is stored in /srv/portainer.

15,45 * * * * /srv/portainer/update.sh 2>&1 | logger -t portainerupdate

The script runs every 30 minutes at minute 15 and 45
Messages from stderr are redirected to stdout
Output is piped to logger, tagged as portainerupdate
- It can be viewed with journalctl -t portainerupdate