Docker [Docker] Portainer for local Docker environments on Windows 10

Installation on Windows 10

1. Open the Docker Menu on the right side of the Windows Taskbar and go to Settings (3rd. Option).
   
   
    
   As you can see from the sixth option, I am running Docker using Linux Container (I recommend this type of containers)! For native Windows containers, check the last section of this post.
2. On the Tab general, activate the option Expose daemon on tcp://localhost:2375 without TLS (last Option).
   
   
    
3. Then, open a PowerShell with administrator rights and type the following:

   netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=10.0.75.1 listenport=2375 connectaddress=127.0.0.1 connectport=2375
   netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="docker management" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=2375

   
   The first line connects 10.0.75.1:2375 to the daemon socket on 127.0.0.1:2375, and the second line adds a pass-through on the firewall for the port 2375 (*) . You need to know that this makes yourself vulnerable to remote code execution attacks.

4. Then, start the Portainer container using an user-mode PowerShell (you do not need administrator rights to do this) typing:

   docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer -H tcp://10.0.75.1:2375

    

5. Go to your browser and type http://localhost:9000 and configure your admin user and password if needed.

That's all you need to run Portainer on Windows to manage Docker. If you need to know more about Portainer, just read its documentation.

Extra options

I wrote a new post with extra options for Portainer.

Native Windows container

To run portainer container in a native Windows container, the syntax is:

docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine -v C:\ProgramData\Portainer:C:\data portainer/portainer

For more info, check this link.