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How to Setup Portainer on Synology NAS


A way to Install Setup Portainer on Synology NAS

  • Solution1: Enable Terminal and SSH to install, Portainer is just a Linux (you can follow my step in Thai)
  • Solution2: Install via Synology Container Manager & Task Scheduler
  • Solution3: Install via Synology Container Manager > Project


In this blog, I show a step of solution 2/3
Install Portainer via Synology Container Manager & Task Scheduler


Prerequisite: Synology Container Manager


  • Open File Station
    - open docker folder
    - create a new folder name portainer (lower case)



  • Open Control Panel > Task Scheduler > Create > Scheduled Task > User-defined script


docker run -d --name=portainer \-p 8000:8000 \-p 9000:9000 \-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \-v /volume1/docker/portainer:/data \--restart=always \portainer/portainer-ce

  • Go to http://[YOUR_SYNOLOGY_IP:9000/ and Enjoy Setup
  • you can follow the installation & basic setup steps in my blog (thai)


Install Portainer via Synology Container Manager > Project


Prerequisite: Synology Container Manager


  • Open File Station
    - open docker folder
    - create a new folder name portainer (lower case)
    - inside portainer folder create folder > portainer_data
  • Go to Container Manager > Project
    - Select portainer
    - Create new docker compose


123services: portainer-ce: container_name: portainer ports: - 8000:8000 - 9000:9000 volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock - ./portainer_data:/data restart: always image: portainer/portainer-ce

  • Click Done - wait for pull & deploy image
  • Go to http://[YOUR_SYNOLOGY_IP:9000/ and Enjoy Setup



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