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How to migrate containers to portainer so I can get rid of the "limited control" portainer has over my containers? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Bwall19@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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As stated. I stood up about 8 containers using docker desktop. Eventually I realized Portainer would be more useful and they now have an app for iphone. Once I installed it, portainer has "limited access" to my containers because they were created outside of portainer. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to re-build these in Portainer?

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If so, I have a few Docker containers that I need database data from that I really don't want to lose. Is there a way to back up the data, and then re-create the same container from a backup in Portainer?

Still new to docker.

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[โ€“] edvauler@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

If you have mapped volumes (I hope you do^^) you can either create the containers the same 8with same paths) in portainer or as other suggest it use docker-compose file/syntax for it. But keep in mind that when you rely on portainer, then keep backup of your configs.

As more advanced user I can tell you, that I use docker, docker-compose, docker swarm from cli and have portainer "only for the quick look". But this depends if you are cool with CLI or want to use a UI.