Hi there,
I have HA running in a Supervised install fashion. For reasons outside the scope of this thread, I’d like to access the docker environment via Portainer from an external server that’s part of the same network. What is the appropriate way of doing it?
Exposing the docker socket sounds risky and I wonder if there’s another way of doing it that is more “official” (quoting because I understand that HA is not a big fan of people messing around with its internals).
Cheers!
Hello Rafael Borges,
Portainer and HA do not get along well together. I don’t know why, but I have seen this before. Some kind of conflict.
Not an expert at all, but something I have seen mentioned several times.
I understand the reason is that you can make a mess of HA thru Portainer, so if you’ve got the old addon installed it marks your installation as unhealthy. But the old addon has been removed now anyway. However, there’s a HACS Portainer version you can install.
AFAIK, that’s just the way portainer works.
When speaking of “other ways”, do you mean besides portainer, or…?
That being said, I’m not sure what your concern is about exposing the docker socket to portainer (or anything similar). That’s just the way any software will be able to interact with docker (which is an inherent security concern, ofc)