Managing Services

Once you've decided which services you would like to have running on your server, you can use the supplied Docker Compose code to create the stack using Portainer. 

Installing Services

Each available service has preparation instructions to ensure you have all the information going into the stack creation process, such as randomly generated passwords or other required information. 

This will include any volumes that need to be mounted within the containers like persistent storage, media files or download folders.  Through Docker, we assign ports to each service that we want to have network access to.

These services may come with environmental variables which are used to configure the stack.  Some are only used to get the stack set up the first time it starts while other are always required to ensure updates are applied correctly.

Updating Services

Each stack of services will have their own instructiona for updating.  For many of the services provided through this library, you can update the service by simply re-deploying the stack through Portainer.  This allows you to download a new Docker image that has the updated software