Pi-Hosted : Raspberry Pi 4 Server Setup, Docker Install, Portainer Install, Shell In A Box Part 1 

I've been contemplating building a pi server or a few in the near future, will be following this series closely :)

Finally a series I've been waiting for. I've been studying to make my own raspi home server and having a struggle safely deploying it online without compromising my home network. Hope you delve into this and topics about wireguard or reverse proxy.

Gonna follow this series as much as I can! I just recently setup my RPI 4 with a qbittorrent server and a pihole dns server and connected a 3TB drive to it. Finding out about portainer and shellinabox makes life already so much easier. Can't wait to see what more you got up your sleeve!

Thanks! You are my go to for anything RPI related.

thanks Don. It took me a wile to figure things out. I watched all the parts many times before I got things working, but its one of the best guides for Docker on raspberry Pi. I am a newbie with very basic knowledge, but your detailed explanations were very helpful.

Litterly bought a new raspberry yesterday, then I stumble across this, amazing work! Will definitely be following!

I’ve done this a couple times but always used a 64bit Ubuntu Server. I’ve found it’s so much better than the 32bit OS Raspberry Pi OS.

looking forward to the next episodes in the series, awesome stuff!

Had a go at this with the new Pi Zero 2 quad core over clocked to 1.2ghz and is running well with these apps "Shell-in-a-box","Portainer","Nginx Proxy manager","Speed-Test Tracker","Transmission Vpn","DeeMix","JellyFin","Woogle "and "Grocy". So far runs well for the power of these boards stream music and flim fine and also plan to ad pi-hole and add a couple of more apps if the ram on these small SBC can handle it. Hooked up to a 160GB SSD and 250GB SSD. Very impressed with the new Pi Zero 2 now its quad core ,this is a great little lower powered server unit ,perfect for people with cost concerns on running a home server. ...My next plan is to run it of renewable energy , couple of battery bank and solar charger. I will see how it goes.

Looking forward to this series. I recommend you use "docker-compose up -d --build" instead of the bash scripts

Please get well and don't give up

Can we have some new updates on this series? this was a great series

Thnx, and nice timing ;D! I'm setting up a server / servers to run in docker to handle a few things. So this series should be very helpful. Can't wait to see what is next!

Yes! Been looking for this exact series. Thank you so much.

Thanks for informative series. In part 1, you image to an SSD/HD then later resize the data partition. Please advise how to or what tool you are using to resize it.

This is great. I look forward to the series! "Hack till it hurts" oo I feel the pain. 😳😅

What a coincidence ! , Even I was inspired by that reddit post and decided to start hosting on pi !!, will be following the videos and eagerly waiting for upcoming videos .

Grandpa Bob here in Orlando ! You Rock! your Video is awesome. Very easy to follow ! thanks Good Job 5 Stars ! thanks ..I see a light at the end of the tunnel and for once it's not a train !

I assume this is a RPi4 with 8GB right? That would be a cool thing to add you your descriptions on your video's. Exactly what device/equipment you use in the video. Just a thought. Love your work.

After a long journey through static ips not connecting to the internet, I'm ready to start following along. #homelab

That script of yours for installing portainer saved my bacon, thank you.

Thank you for these excellent tutorials. I followed the instructions for the Docker and Portainer installations. How do I permanently remove your pi-hosted banner on the Portainer installation?😅

Thanks a ton for solving a huge problem of mine. I have an extra windows phone, its an old model. Its utterly useless coz all the important apps are paid and unavailable for free on the internet. Shellinabox solved the problem. Now I can use it with all my rpi projects.

Dockers....Dockers. As a Red Hatter, many in the company insist on saying Containers.

This series is so awesome. I will be trying all the applications in the video series on my raspberrypi🤩😍😍😍

Cool series. I plan to follow some steps and see what I can come up with.

Thanks very much for this series!

This comes at the best time, I just got my first pi, and really want to see how I can max it out

great series. I'd love to see a Wordpress episode that sets up Wordpress / Redis / Postfix on the pi. similar to easyengine config but running on the PI.

Best series 👍👍👍

Awesome stuff! Will follow this series for sure!

Really appreciate the attention to detail and the step by step instructions given in this series. One quick question though, I also want my pi4 to act as a NAS with OMV, is it possible to do this alongside an OMV installation?

I use my pie for plex. I want to try and do this project with you great start!

can i do this on a pi cluster?

Any reason you didn't use the 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS, other than the RPi foundation still treats it as experimental? Other distros offer stable 64-bit versions and it looks like there's a 64-bit docker to go with it.

Could you do an updated version of this please, I would like to figure out how to setup up Portainer on pi 4 with Sonarr, Radarr, Plex and if possible Petio or Overseerr, love you videos dude!

I've been waiting for this type of video for ages :-) I followed along and got this all nicely setup. Looking forward to the followiing parts so that I can follow along and learn :-)

Great! clear and concise video. Love the presentation. Thank you so much.

Great video and series. Learned several things. Looking forward to more videos.

This is so good!! Looking forward to the second part. Did u consider installing OMV5 and docker/portainer on top of that ?? So you can have an NAS manager as well. Also do all of the apps run on 32 bit? There is no requirements for 64bit ??

oh oh oh, this is awesome. This series really a very practical for day to day use and learn a lot of thing about docker. I am newbie in the docket world, and I found that really useful and powerful environment. Beside working on RPi4, this knowledge sure can apply on other platforms which support docker. Which Linux distro you will recommend to someone like me, a newbie that want to use an old laptop to run docker? thx a lot.

This looks like a great project, I will certainly follow it thanks.

Great series will be help my future work

You could also run sudo apt upgrade -y

awesome series! I can't wait to get into this.

really appreciate all this effort, wonderful, thanks

Oh that could be an interesting series. I have my old Pi2 installed inside my NAS acting as one of two DNS but I consider to move my docker installations from the OMV NAS to the Pi with me replacing the Pi2 with a Pi4. Thing is, I just started myself to mess around with Docker and don't get it entirely yet, especially CLI usage is weird and complex for beginners.

This doesn’t work for me… I followed it exactly and Homer is not starting (logs are repeating, over and over: No configuration found, installing default config & assets Assets directory not writable. Check assets directory permissions & docker user or skip default assets install by setting the INIT_ASSETS env var to 0)

What is next for this series? I'm anxious to see what else you're going to make. How much stuff can you actually put on RPi 4 anyway? It's not only how much RAM model has but there is limited CPU power as well.

Probably look into docker-compose, instead of using bash scripts to kick off docker run commands. Good video though. ;)

There seems to be a problem with your app template.. they don't open up after deploying them so I tried other templates from self-hosted and that works fine

Thanks, Eric. So much power in such a little package. One question - I noticed you're using the 32bit armhf instead of a 64bit aarch64 environment. Any specific reason behind that? I'm building with a combination of RPi 4/4GB and Pine64 RockPRO 64 SBCs.

sounds like he's using the G502. if so, i respect a fellow man of culture.

this is by far the best raspberry pi series in existence. thank you so much! I have one question: I opted for a wireless connection when i first started, but now I want to use ethernet. I don't know how to configure this with a headless install. plugging in an ethernet cable doesn't automatically switch the connection to ethernet. What can I do?

Excellent video, just one comment: If you configure WIFI, you still can use ethernet :)

Thanks!

Hi Don. Thank you so much for putting this series together. I am doing my best to follow along, but it's not going so good. im running Ubuntu desktop and don't know which docker to install. I have watched, paused, rewind, watch pause rewind so many times. it seems if I could just get the first parts installed, then I could add all the images I feel useful. could you redo the first vid, slowly, for dummies like me.?

What OS are you using it looks very sleek?

I have been trying to use docker more here lately. I have been using compose also. I am excited for next episode in series. A pi server is a good new project. What is the cooler you are using on the pi?

this is not working for me i get no error when running the command but when i go to raspberrypi.local:9000 the site cannot be reached ive tried going to the static ip of my raspberry pi IPADDRESS:9000 and nothing i fallowed your commands to the letter i dont know why its not working

Awsome, I Will follow this series

Need a part 2 already

is the current ./install_docker.sh broke.. it didn't add pi to docker

Your video are amazing, u can make a video how to install flaresolver on pi4 docker

Hey Nova - Great series thank you - can I please ask a favour - can you add Part 1, 2 3 etc to this series, so I can follow along easily - Many Thanks Grant

Great series look forward to seeing vids

Any vids in the work on what portainer stacks are and what they do and can you add adguard to the slefhosted template if possible 🤔

what os are u using on ur pc? looks pretty sick!

Hey I noticed you like minimalism, so I figured I'd tell you there's a duplicate folder on your desktop.

Hi, any chance you could make a video on Tdarr in docker as part of pi-hosted series? Would make sense for pruning Plex's libraries :)

Excellent video, today is my first day with a Pi... I got all this up and running but then switch portainer to force HTTPS (thinking it would install a self signed cert). I've not lost access .. Any tips?

I'm about to invest in the hardware needed and I'm going to follow this series closely. However, I'm a bit foggy what hardware exactly is needed. Do I buy the regular Rpi 4B+ and a compute board or just a compute board and a IO board to that, please?

Awesome video! Thanks!

Hi Having issues installing and updating portainer and also can't find the exact app template link. A total newbie to such a project.

Is there any reason for why you went with the 32 bit version of raspbian?

Hello Don, This is a perfect series actually. But I have a question, I would like to build a swarm using this what considerations do I need to deploy master and 5 workers? I would expect that preparing this type of install would require a few extra steps. Thank you for your hard work this is awesome Thank you!!!

I wonder if you could have a similar setup with ESXI on rpi and a few vms for hosting services.

what's your keyboard? it sounds so good ☺️

Failed to retrieve templates added @ 13:45 ??? Disregard, somehow I was looking at the wrong line on the video when I typed the link since I could not find a link posted here... Changed to the correct link and boom....

Would you be exploring adding limesurvey as well?

Hi! I am very new to self hosting, I have an old laptop running ubuntu server, is following this series applicable for my ubuntu server or do you have a video that for that too? Thanks!

Hi I am new learning docker and portainer. I continue to have the same issue when installing an app (homer) there are no published ports listed in portainer. I cannot conect to the homer dash board. Any suggestions?

So does this need to be updated for the 64bit version ?

I don’t know anything about this but I’m going to get into whole series because I bought a pi some months ago but I haven’t even taken out the box. I do have some questions. I bought the Cana kit with fan…do I need to have the big fan on the video and also I have a lot of sata drives with enclosed cases, will this be enough to connect to the pi? I sub to your channel. Thanks

Looks like you flashed straight to an external storage and did not need to do any config to make the pi boot from it, is that correct? My past experience win creating external boot started with an internal SD card and this video suggests that can now be skipped.

What about getting something like mopidy running so this server could play music anywhere?

I'm wondering if those templates will work on the Pi that I'm going to be running Home Assistant on. I will try it out and see, I suppose. The nice thing is that Home Assistant has a built in Portainer addon so I don't have to mess with installing it manually.

Would i be able install Ubuntu on a NUC and then follow these instructions to automate the download and installation of Docker and Portainer? or install Raspberry Pi Lite on a NUC?

Any reason for your using 32bit Raspberry OS rather than 64bit?

Please be sure to include a few sentences about what each server app does and its use case. I was a bit annoyed that you started talking about portainer before explaining what it does. However, you did circle back and explained its use.

What version of Docker compose does the Raspberry Pi use? It looks like they’ve updated the x86 portainer to version 3 but not the arm version.

this look insane, nice video

next video please, too cool

Sure hope you know what you are talking about because I'm blindly following you. With a little help from Chat GPT, it's working for me. Bring on the next one and THANKS

How can I backup/transfer a complete configurated Container from my pi to my friend's pi via Portainer? thx

Hey have watch all your videos regarding this and all of them are awesome! One petition if possible to setup a dream configuration ( at least for me ) Raspi OS lite installed in SD card or USB device ( but accepting a media device for download storage so to not format my current ssd/hdd etc ) Docker Portainer Pi-hole Plex Transmission Samba ( so to transfer files from my network the pi) All apps need to see the mounted devices and share to my network ( was not able to figure this on my own ). any guide/link to get his done would be awesome ty!

Thanks, good job.

all containers that i download with portainer wont let me access their webui and keeps craching

I always end up with a question in the back of my head about the file system and storage with this. Always. Bugged me for years..

One question if you have directories with files in them how do you delete them on raspberrry pi lite