Portainer - Monitoring tools for K8s and Docker

Config Portainer with Shell Scripting

So for easily managing and reading logs, metrics, and exec console of containers, you will need monitoring tools, and portainer is exactly what you want, go to documentation for more detail.
Go for check it Config Portainer in Docker for understanding what is going on for deployed containers. The script will contain 2 purposes, deploy the container and reset the password. To run this script, try this command

#/bin/bash
chmod +x config_portainer.sh
# This command will reset the password of current portainer (1st optional)
./config_portainer.sh --reset-password
# This command will create a new portainer for you (2nd optional)
./config_portainer.sh --deploy-master-portainer
# This command will create a new agent portainer for you (3rd optional)
./config_portainer.sh --deploy-agent-portainer

Config Portainer with Ansible for remote host

Info

If you want to setup portainer with ansible. You can perform this command. You need choose one of task in Config Portainer in Docker

config_master: Configuration master portainer
config_ssl_master: Configuration master portainer with SSL cert domain
config_agent: Configuration agent portainer
reset_password_master_portainer: Reset the password of master portainer

ansible-playbook -i inventories/<env>/hosts --extra-vars "host_name=<your_host_machine>" \
--extra-vars "env=local|staging|prod" --user="root|<remote-user>" \
--tags="portainer_config,selection-task-portainer" ./ansible/monitoring_tasks.yaml

When you apply the container will run, for this purpose, you can disable exposing the public port of portainer into the host, just access it via nginx-proxy which optional will be best for secure and easily managing the portainer. The configuration which you can take a look at Nginx Template Portainer for Ansible

Note

portainer is not just managed the only your local docker, it can be managed for multiple docker via portainer-agent. Read this documentation for more information.