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Manage Docker Environment on VPS with your Local Portainer

·2 mins
Introduction # In last post we learned to install and configure Portainer to maintain your local Docker environment. Although I’m not against command line, Portainer is a great companion if you don’t prefer to remember long commands to manager your docker. In this post I’m going to extend on last post and show how can you manage your VPS docker environment from your local Portainer installation.

Install and Configure Portainer on your Local Machine

·3 mins
Introduction # This is a quick post where I demonstrate how to install Portainer on Ubuntu. Regardless this tutorial is demonstrated on Ubuntu, you can run Portainer on whatever Docker host you are using including Windows. Most awaited Docker Desktop is available for Linux now. Still, it is a desktop application. There is also an alternative that you already might have heard of if you have worked with Kubernetes. It is called Portainer.

When User Data Scripts Are Not Enough, Create a New Image

·7 mins
Introduction # I have been using AWS with Terraform to provision my development instance on AWS cloud. When I wanted to configure dotfiles, change SSH port and configure some cron jobs, I hit a bottleneck. I literally was not able to do those tasks with user scripts because they had no effect. That was the time when creating custom image of the distro came into my mind.