Connect Portainer to the Docker environment you want to manage.
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Manage the Docker environment where Portainer is running.

Ensure that you have started the Portainer container with the following Docker flag:

-v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" (Linux).

or

-v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine (Windows).

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Connect directly to a Portainer agent running inside a Swarm cluster.

If you have started Portainer in the same overlay network as the agent, you can use tasks.AGENT_SERVICE_NAME:AGENT_SERVICE_PORT as the endpoint URL format.

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This feature is experimental.

Connect to Microsoft Azure to manage Azure Container Instances (ACI).

Have a look at the Azure documentation to retrieve the credentials required below.

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Azure credentials
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Connect Portainer to a remote Docker environment using the Docker API over TCP.

The Docker API must be exposed over TCP. You can find more information about how to expose the Docker API over TCP in the Docker documentation.

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Required TLS files
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