Portainer CE gives you a web UI to deploy and manage Docker containers, images, volumes, networks and stacks on your own VM. This image runs Portainer CE on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, hardened and fully patched, with the console on port 80 behind a unique per-VM admin password seeded on first boot, WebSocket-ready nginx in front, Docker CE preinstalled, and Portainer data on a dedicated disk. Maintained by cloudimg.
## Portainer CE on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Portainer CE gives you a browser-based control panel to deploy and manage Docker on your own cloud VM — containers, images, volumes, networks and stacks — without memorising Docker CLI commands. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with Docker CE preinstalled.
### What's included
### Getting started
Retrieve the generated admin credentials with `sudo cat /root/portainer-credentials.txt`, then open the VM's public IP in your browser and sign in as admin. The local Docker environment is already connected, so you can deploy a container or stack straight away. For production, put HTTPS in front with certbot. The deployment guide on cloudimg.co.uk covers sign-in, deploying containers and securing the endpoint.