Portainer 2.0 -- Now with more Kubernetes!

What’s new in Portainer 2.0? Well, a ton. With the release of Portainer 2 you now have the option to install Kubernetes. This makes installing, managing, and deploying Kubenetes really easy. In this step by step tutorial, we’ll start with nothing and end up with a fully working Portainer 2 server running Kubernetes. We’ll set up k3s using k3d, install kubectl, and then spin up Portainer. As an added bonus, we’ll also run a Minecraft server in Kubernetes as a proof of work. Double bonus, we’ll cover how to pronounce kubectl…

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Let’s get started

Here are the commands used in the video. Be sure to use them appropriately.

Install ubuntu

https://ubuntu.com/

Install Docker

To install docker, see https://docs.technotim.live/posts/docker-compose-install/

Install kubectl

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/

curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

chmod +x ./kubectl

sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

kubectl version --client

Install k3d

https://github.com/rancher/k3d

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/k3d/main/install.sh | bash

Install k3s

k3d cluster create portainer --api-port 6443 --servers 1 --agents 1 -p "30000-32767:[email protected]:0"

k3d cluster create portainer --api-port 6443 --servers 1 --agents 1 -p "30000-32767:[email protected]:0"

Install Portainer

https://github.com/portainer/k8s

kubectl create namespace portainer
kubectl apply -n portainer -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/portainer/k8s/master/deploy/manifests/portainer/portainer.yaml

The Portainer UI is hosted on port `30777`


      Example: `http://192.168.0.1:30777`

Links

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🚀 Don’t forget to check out the 🚀Launchpad repo with all of the quick start source files