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Community updates about Portainer

Wilfried — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:48:16 +0000

When this year started, we knew that @portainerio has in store for us so many events, blogs, and new updates coming to the community. Portainer has been really active in the last two months.

Here are some that should be known by the #devops team and #developers in general:

A blog by Dimko about how to save your developers time
The Tech Republic shared a very good article about How to deploy the Portainer container management tool with persistent storage
Pi my life up did a guide about how to Manage your Docker Containers on the Raspberry Pi with Portainer
A blog by Neil Cresswell about how to Reclaim disk space by compacting the Docker Desktop WSL disk image
An interesting blog about a contrast between @portainerio Community edition & Business edition
A blog on how Portainer has Helm Support
A 30 minute series by a Developer Advocate (Dimko) and hosted by a community Advocate (Francesco Ciulla). This is a showcase of @portainerio a cool tool that allows managing containers with a cool GUI
Helm for beginners during one of the meetups that one of the community Advocate (Hrittik) participated in. You can follow with this link
A blog how to get started with Portainer in IBM Cloud
Announcement of Portainer Community Edition 2.11.1 which is all about the edge. Here are some new changes in the new CE:

Zero-Touch device on-boarding to install an OS directly onto a remote machine
Power on/off and restart a remote machine anywhere in the world
Remotely access the devices KVM from Portainer

This is also an interesting blog post here

Getting started with Portainer 101 with this YouTube video
A blog on how to Deploy and use ArgoCD with Portainer part 1 and part 2
A @portainerio Expert Series on Exploring the Future of Edge, with Intel and Portainer. Watch the video here
Community live stream titled Living on the Edge: Portainer Live with Intel and Francesco
A blog on Using VSCode with Portainer managed Kubernetes Clusters
A blog on Using Portainer with AWS Elastic Container Registry
A Twitter thread by Community Advocate (Hrittik) on Helm: Package Manager for Kubernetes you can read it here
A demo and see Portainer in Action Hosted by Community Advocate (Francesco) and Developer Advocate (Dimko)
Celebration of Portainer reaching 2000 followers on Twitter. Make sure you follow the account and activate notifications

If you have any projects you are working on using @portainerio and need to be mentioned, you can comment on this post or reach out to me on Twitter or anyone from the Portainer team.

There are also companies that are recruiting and they are interested in people who have experience with Portainer. Find some of these companies below:

Animation R&D Programmer
Rockstar Games
https://bit.ly/33Qz4h6
Senior Software Developer
BTIG
https://bit.ly/3hfz1OT
Senior DevOps Support Engineer
Tradeweb
https://t.co/yWRdCxBzL0

The Portainer Business Edition offers 5 free nodes if you want to test it, make sure you check out the Portainer tool and test it.

Review - Portainer Business Edition version 2.10

Wilfried — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:56:12 +0000

On the 15th Nov 2021, @portainerio Business Edition version 2.10 was released.

In this new release, there are new features and improvements done looking at the previous version. These are some of the new features:

Improved UI
GitOps Integration
Forced Redeployment
Change Window Settings
Kubectl Shell
Proxy for container environments
Helm Charts support
Custom Templates
K8S private registry support
HTTPS support
Removal of Advanced Mode
Dark Mode You can check out more information on the new release in this YouTube Video: https://bit.ly/3qW4ETX

Among all these new features, let me talk about few of them that really does improve my use of Portainer. First and foremost, I will talk about Dark Mode. Since I spend so much time in front of a screen, dark mode really was a big update in my opinion. Now I can use Portainer without having to worry about brightness.

Another big update was the Kubectl Shell support in Portainer now. These are those updates that makes all the difference whiling using a tool. Now you can easily access the Kubectl Shell without having to leave Portainer at any point. Now I don't have to have kubectl installed on my PC. With this new feature, you can use the embedded kubectl on iPad or Chromebook or any other device which is pretty awesome.

Last but not least, the other big update is the UI. I know most people don't think the UI doesn't matter but I know for myself it influences me how much time I spend using a tool. The menu is now well arranged and you can collapse the tabs not being used so that you can focus well while working.

My experience is much better now. But it doesn't stop there, there is a major update where now anyone can have 5 free lifetime nodes on the Business version and now you can use them as you test all the features Portainer Business Edition has to offer. This is great news for everyone who is always wondering which tool to give a go since most you only have access to the free version and be able to find out if indeed it does fit the organization needs.

If you wish to test the Portainer Business Edition, use this link to get started: https://bit.ly/3k9GjWw

Portainer at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA

Wilfried — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:34:50 +0000

On October 11 - 15 this year, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA was held. It was a very interesting event. It was a hybrid event with so many interesting keynotes, workshops, demos, office hours, etc...

I can say about so many things that happened in the event but there was company @portainerio that had very interesting topics and big announcement for the community and users.

Some of these interesting sessions were as follows:

How To Build a Kubernetes Environment - the Easy way
How to Automate App Development using Portainer and Git
Portainer and Canonical - Easy MicroK8s and Charmed
RBAC Made Easy with Portainer
Migrating from Docker to Kubernetes

The sessions were very interesting and informative and to cap it all, there was a big announcement which with the release on the new Portainer CE 2.9.1.

Here are some of the new features:

Improved UI
Kubectl Shell
Portainer as a proxy for third-party container environments
Lightweight GitOps
Helm Charts support
Custom Templates
Private registry support for Kubernetes
HTTPS support
Removal of 'Advanced Mode'
Dark Mode

If you want more info on the new features, check out this blog by @portainerio - https://bit.ly/3j3uTTu

You can find a release notes here: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/releases/tag/2.9.1

You can also find the documentation here: https://docs.portainer.io/v/ce-2.9/?_ga=2.204215568.1879061827.1635697587-1595820817.1620039083

From this release, one of my favorite new feature is the Dark mode.

How-to Webinar Series with Tech Evangelist, Adolfo Delorenzo.

Wilfried — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:03:07 +0000

Join this 6-part How-to Webinar Series with Tech Evangelist, Adolfo Delorenzo.

In this series, learn to use Portainer to manage the most common scenarios facing Platform Managers, DevOps teams and/or Developers.

Follow along with Adolfo as he showcases Portainer, with live hands-on demos, explained step-by-step.

At the end of this series, you will have a deeper
understanding of how Portainer can simplify
container management in your organization.

Episode Line-up:

How to use Portainer to build a powerful, secure multi-cluster Kubernetes environment anyone can use.
How to use Portainer (integrated into Git) to automate deployment of apps as part of your DevOps workflow.
How to create a centralized identity and access management layer with Portainer.
How to use Portainer as a collaboration platform for developers.
How to use Portainer as the bridge between Docker / Docker Swam and Kubernetes.
How to use Portainer to write better cloud native apps for Kube environments.
How to get started with Portainer and Charmed Kubernetes / MicroK8s.
How to use Portainer to manage your Docker environment (where there’s no Swarm).
Managing containers at the edge with Portainer.
How to create and publish Portainer app templates.

You can use this link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhawEudhdubRM7S9e_XIui19nA4Vnvp5a

Kubernetes #Docker #Linux #opensource #cloudnative #containers #Portainer #Portainerbusiness

How To: Secure your Kubernetes Environment with RBAC User Management

Wilfried — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:01:46 +0000

This webinar will compare and contrast how to create Kubernetes RBAC user management, with and without @portainerio . You will learn about -

The 5 predefined roles within RBAC
How to handle employee changes and leavers
RBAC complexity
Authentication

How To: Manage Containers at the Edge with #Portainer

Wilfried — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:44:37 +0000

In this session, (the 6th of our PortaiNerd series), you'll learn how to manage #containers at the Edge with
@portainerio
.

Cloud #edujobs

https://bit.ly/3AkWzKt

Learn how to build a Kubernetes environment

Wilfried — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:44:59 +0000

Register for this great series to learn how to build a Kubernetes environment (the easy way)! Join us in the first of our PortaiNerd Event Series.
Check out the below post
https://twitter.com/portainerio/status/1421005807705985025?s=20
or you can use the following link
https://t.co/yvK3k8JwE9?amp=1

Portainer poll

Wilfried — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:37:31 +0000

You can participate in this poll if you are a portainer.io user.
https://twitter.com/portainerio/status/1421627170263224323?s=20