Installing portainer on xcp-ng

fred974

Hi,

I am trying to install portainer in a Debian VM and all I have found is this 2021 article which I am not sure is still relevant today.
Could anyone please tell me if we still need to install xscontainer on the host?

$ yum install xscontainer 
$ xe-toolstack-restart
$ xscontainer-prepare-vm -v vm<uuid> -u portainer

What is the 2023 way of doing this?

If I deploy a Kubernetes recipe from XOA, can I use it for Portainer

Thank you all in advance.

olivierlambert

Hi!

If Portainer is able to connect to the k8S API, yes it will work

fred974

@olivierlambert So, I just install Debian as usual and install portainer in that VM without running anything on the host. Correct? Also what happened to RunX?

olivierlambert

For Portainer: yes

RunX is an interesting tech, but k8s cluster deploy is a bigger priority now. It's not a big deal now to run containers in "full VMs". We try to prioritize with our current bandwidth, even if we'd like to do everything at once it's not possible at the moment.

fred974

@olivierlambert said in Installing portainer on xcp-ng:

f Portainer is able to connect to the k8S API, yes it will work

Do I install Portainer on its own VM and connect it to the Kubernetes cluster or do I install it in the master node of Kubernetes?

I have never play with docker / Kubernetes so I am really have no idea what is best here. I want to install it for learning

olivierlambert

I'm no k8s expert neither

fred974

@olivierlambert Thank you. Hopefully someone can chip in

ThasianXi

@fred974 I suggest installing on its own VM. I have never used Portainer to manage Kubernetes (only Docker containers) however, I usually use Rancher to manage K8s and I always install on its own VM.

fred974

@ThasianXi said in Installing portainer on xcp-ng:

I usually use Rancher to manage K8s and I always install on its own VM.

Thank you for your input I tried rancher and couldn't make head and tail of it. Also not much tutorial out there