Initializing Portainer

The image application dashboard needs to be initialized only when you log in for the first time.

1. On the Overview page, click Access in the Dashboard field in the Image area.

   

   Portainer initialization has a certain validity period. If no users are created within the validity period, the following message is displayed. In this case, log in to the server and run sudo docker restart portainer to restart Portainer, and then create a user as soon as possible.

   

2. Set the username and password of the Portainer administrator and click Create user.

   If you have backup data for Portainer, click Restore Portainer from backup and upload the backup data to quickly set up the Portainer environment.

   

3. Choose Home and click local to use Portainer for Docker visual management.

   

Then, you have obtained a Portainer hosting server. You can start using Portainer or follow the instructions provided in Using Portainer to Deploy a MySQL Container to create and connect to a MySQL container.