Home assistant add-on: Portainer
I maintain this and other Home Assistant add-ons in my free time: keeping up with upstream changes, HA changes, and testing on real hardware takes a lot of time (and some money). I use around 5-10 of my >110 addons so regularly I install test machines (and purchase some test services such as vpn) that I don't use myself to troubleshoot and improve the addons
If this add-on saves you time or makes your setup easier, I would be very grateful for your support!
Addon informations
Forked from : https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-portainer Implemented changes : update to latest versions ; ingress ; ssl ; password setting through addon option ; allow manual override
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About
Portainer is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your 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.
RESTORE BACKUP
Open the addon options and set the password to "empty". Restart the addon, it will allow to restore portainer from a backup. You need to put your backup in an accessible folder such as /share to have it mounted in the addon
WARNING
The Portainer add-on is really powerful and gives you virtually access to 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.
Installation
The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.
- Add my add-ons repository to your home assistant instance (in supervisor addons store at top right, or click button below if you have configured my HA)
- Install this add-on.
- Click the
Savebutton to store your configuration. - Set the add-on options to your preferences
- Start the add-on.
- Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
- Open the webUI and adapt the software options
Configuration
Webui can be found at http://homeassistant:port or in your sidebar using Ingress. The default username is "admin" and the password is described in the startup log.
Options
| Option | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
ssl |
bool | false |
Enable HTTPS for web interface |
certfile |
str | fullchain.pem |
SSL certificate file (in /ssl/) |
keyfile |
str | privkey.pem |
SSL private key file (in /ssl/) |
password |
str | homeassistant |
Admin password (min 12 characters, leave blank to restore backup) |
Example Configuration
ssl: true
certfile: "fullchain.pem"
keyfile: "privkey.pem"
password: "your-secure-password-123"
Custom Scripts and Environment Variables
This addon supports custom scripts and environment variables through the addon_config mapping:
- Custom scripts: See Running Custom Scripts in Addons
- env_vars option: Use the add-on
env_varsoption to pass extra environment variables (uppercase or lowercase names). See https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/wiki/Add-Environment-variables-to-your-Addon-2 for details.
Support
Create an issue on github

