wiki/wiki/docker/portainer_-_agent.md

portainer - agent

This is a Docker container for a portainer agent. The official container and documentation was made by portainer.

Set-up

Create the file rebuild.sh. Change the settings according to your needs and run ./rebuild.sh afterwards.

Volumes

Set the following volumes with the -v tag.

Outside mount/volume name	Container mount	Description
/var/run/docker.sock	/var/run/docker.sock	connect your running docker containers
/var/lib/docker/volumes	/var/lib/docker/volumes	connect running docker volumes

Ports

Set the following ports with the -p tag.

Container Port	Recommended outside port	Protocol	Description
9001	9001	TCP	Portainer agent port

rebuild.sh

#!/bin/sh
docker stop portainer_agent
docker rm portainer_agent
docker pull portainer/agent:latest
docker run --name portainer_agent \
    -p 9001:9001 \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    -v /var/lib/docker/volumes:/var/lib/docker/volumes \
    -d portainer/agent:latest