Connect Portainer to the Docker environment you want to manage.

Local

Manage the local Docker environment

Remote

Manage a remote Docker environment

Agent

Connect to a Portainer agent

Information

Manage the Docker environment where Portainer is running using the Unix filesystem socket.

Ensure that you have started the Portainer container with the following Docker flag: -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock".

Information

Connect directly to a Portainer agent running inside a Swarm cluster.

If you have started Portainer in the same overlay network as the agent, you can use tasks.AGENT_SERVICE_NAME:AGENT_SERVICE_PORT as the endpoint URL format.

Environment

Name

Agent URL

Information

Connect Portainer to a remote Docker environment using the Docker API over TCP.

The Docker API must be exposed over TCP. You can find more information about how to expose the Docker API over TCP in the Docker documentation.

Environment

Name

Endpoint URL

TLS

Skip server verification

Skip client verification

Required TLS files

TLS CA certificate

TLS certificate

TLS key