Portainer

Portainer is a powerful open-source container management tool that allows you to easily manage and deploy containers. Creating a new project in Portainer helps you organize and group containers, making it easier to manage them.

Creating a new portainer project

Follow the steps below to create a new project in Portainer:

• Open a web browser and navigate to the Portainer web interface.
• Login
• Once logged in, you will be directed to the Portainer dashboard. Select the appropriate Environnement.
  • itwebcloudgateway: Cloud gateway machine that reverse proxies all web requests to appropriate docker project.
  • itwebcloudprod: Cloud production machine for all front-end production websites.
  • itwebclouddatabase: Cloud database machine used for web projects, currently mostly used for Strapi.
  • itvxwebdmz: Internal server for our backend services.
  • itvxwebstagingdmz: Internal server for all staging projects.
• Navigate to the containers section.
• Click the Add Container button.
• In the Create container form, you will need to provide the following information, you can ignore sections not mentioned in the list below :
  • Name: Use the same name as the github repository and dockerhub repository.
  • Registry: Make sure to select the dockerhub_auth option to be able to access our private repositories in dockerhub
  • Image: Input beaulieucanada/projectname:(latest or staging depending on environnement) the end result should look like this beaulieucanada/projectname:latest
  • Network ports configuration: Click the publish a new network port button.
    • On the left side input the port you want to use to call your project, it should be different than every other installed projects.
    • On the right side input the port your projects uses inside the container
  • Advanced container settings:
    • Click on the Env tab and input any environnement variables your project needs to run
    • Click on the Restart policy make sure to set it to Unless stopped
  • Click the Deploy the container button
  • 🎉Congratulations you have deployed your project using docker! 🎉