Install Proxmox LXC Container with Docker VM Instance and Portainer CE Install

1.0 Install Proxmox LXC Container

• ensure that you have installed “Turnkey Core” template

1. ensure that you have installed “Turnkey Core” template 17.1 or greater
2. Create LXC container using Turnkey Core template

2.0 Install Docker VM Instance on Proxmox LXC Container

How to Install Docker Engine on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

2.1 Update Package Index and Install dependencies

2.1.1 Set up the docker repository

apt update && apt upgrade -y

apt install sudo apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release -y

2.1.2 Add docker GPG key

sudo mkdir -m 0755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg

echo \
"deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

2.2 Install Docker Engine

sudo apt-get update

sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin

sudo docker run hello-world

2.3 Manager Docker as a non-root user

sudo groupadd docker

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

newgrp docker

docker run hello-world

2.4 Configure Docker to start on boot with Systemd

sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl enable containerd.service

To Disable:

sudo systemctl disable docker.service
sudo systemctl disable containerd.service

3.0 Install Portainer CE on Docker VM Instance on Proxmox LXC Container

docker volume create portainer_data

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest

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