Portainer is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage a Docker host(s) or Docker swarm clusters.
It has never been so easy to manage Docker. Portainer provides a detailed overview of Docker and allows you to manage containers, images, networks and volumes.
The Portainer add-on is really powerful and gives you access to virtually your whole system. While this add-on is created and maintained with care and with security in mind, in the wrong or inexperienced hands, it could damage your system.
The Portainer add-on is meant for debugging Home Assistant and its containers. It has not meant or designed for managing or deploying your custom software or third-party containers.
Home Assistant DOES NOT SUPPORT running third party containers on Home Assistant OS or Supervised installation types. Ignoring this, will render your system as unsupported!
To install this add-on, you'll first need to go to your profile and turn on "Advanced Mode", once that is done go back to Home Assistant add-ons and search for "Portainer" and install it as you would any other add-on.
To be able to use this add-on, you'll need to disable protection mode on this add-on. Without it, the add-on is unable to access Docker.
- Search for the "Portainer" add-on in the Supervisor add-on store and install it.
- Set the "Protection mode" switch to off.
- Start the "Portainer" add-on.
- Check the logs of the "Portainer" add-on to see if everything went well.
Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.
Example add-on configuration:
log_level: info
agent_secret: password
Note: This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!
The log_level
option controls the level of log output by the addon and can
be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are
dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:
trace
: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.debug
: Shows detailed debug information.info
: Normal (usually) interesting events.warning
: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.error
: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.fatal
: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.
Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a
more severe level, e.g., debug
also shows info
messages. By default,
the log_level
is set to info
, which is the recommended setting unless
you are troubleshooting.
An option to set a shared agent secret. Must also be set in the remote agent as an Environment variable.
This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.
Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format
of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented
based on the following:
MAJOR
: Incompatible or major changes.MINOR
: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.PATCH
: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.
Got questions?
You have several options to get them answered:
- The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
- The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
- The Home Assistant Community Forum.
- Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant
You could also open an issue here GitHub.
The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.
For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.
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Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Franck Nijhof
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