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Install Docker on an LXC Container

  • Important the LXC container must be unpreviliged and Nesting and keyctl must be activated.

Update your machine to be up to date 

apt update && apt upgrade -y && reboot

Install Docker and set up that Docker starts when container starts 

apt install docker.io
systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker

Install docker-compose and check the version after installation replace 1.31.0 with the newest docker compose version 

apt install curl 
curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/2.31.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
docker-compose --version

Install portainer 

docker volume create portainer_data
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ee:2.19.0

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