Install Alpine Linux to host docker & apps and setup as an environment in Portainer

Описание: Consider using Alpine Linux to host docker & apps (I've made the switch from Ubuntu).

Alpine Linux is lightweight and bootup is super fast.

This video will step through setting up Alpine Linux to host docker and set it as an environment in Portainer.


https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/
alpine-standard-3.16.1-x86_64.iso

Install Alpine Linux
setup-alpine
(follow the prompts)

Post installation
Edit repositories
vi /etc/apk/repositories
uncheck community repository

Update/Upgrade
apk update
apk upgrade

Add nano and sudo
apk add nano
apk add sudo

Add user to sudoers
sudo nano etc/sudoers.d/wheel
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
adduser YOURUSERNAME wheel

reboot
ssh into server using YOURUSERNAME

Add qemu-guest-agent
sudo apk add qemu-guest-agent
sudo service qemu-guest-agent start
sudo service qemu-guest-agent status

Add qemu-guest-agent to start on boot
sudo rc-update add qemu-guest-agent boot

Add packages for resizing disk
sudo apk add cfdisk
sudo apk add e2fsprogs-extra (this is to run resize2fs)

Add docker and docker-compose
sudo apk add docker docker-compose
sudo service docker start
sudo service docker status

Add docker to start on boot
sudo rc-update add docker boot

Add user to docker group
sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME docker

Enable TCP port 2375 to connect Docker
sudo nano /etc/docker/daemon.json
{"hosts": ["tcp://0.0.0.0:2375", "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"]}