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Visualizing your containers with Portainer

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Visualizing your containers with Portainer

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- [Instructor] One convenient feature that Docker Desktop provides is the ability to see and interact with the containers that are running. Fortunately, there are community alternatives that provide much of that same functionality. One of my favorite alternatives is a tool called Portainer. Portainer is a front end for the Docker client. Almost everything that you can do with the Docker command line client can be done within Portainer through a super slick UI. Since Portainer itself runs within a Docker container, quote, unquote, "installing it" couldn't be easier. Before we jump into a terminal, I just want to spend some time introducing you to the GitHub source code repository for Portainer. Just like Lima and other tools that we've seen, Portainer is open source, so you can look at the documentation here, or, if you're feeling up to it, you can even contribute back to the project. You can find it at…

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