Installing 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. 

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

an overview as well as a docker Compose yaml file. 

This canwill beinclude copiedany into Portainer using the create a stack command.  These also come with an env configuration.  There is some configuration that needs to be done for both the env and Compose, like extra media folders.  Envs can also contain passwordsvolumes that need to be configured.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.