Control Docker containers and stacks via Portainer API. List containers, start/stop/restart, view logs, and redeploy stacks from git.
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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ 🐳 P O R T A I N E R C O N T R O L C L I 🐳 ║ ║ ║ ║ Manage Docker containers via Portainer API ║ ║ Start, stop, deploy, redeploy ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
"Docker containers? I'll handle them from my lily pad." 🐸
The Portainer Skill gives you control over your Docker infrastructure through Portainer's REST API. Manage containers, stacks, and deployments without touching the web UI.
Features:
| What | Details |
|---|---|
| Portainer | Version 2.x with API access |
| Tools | |
| Auth | API Access Token |
Get API Token from Portainer:
Configure credentials:
# Add to ~/.clawdbot/.env PORTAINER_URL=https://your-portainer-server:9443 PORTAINER_API_KEY=ptr_your_token_here
Ready! 🚀
status./portainer.sh status
Output:
Portainer v2.27.3
endpoints./portainer.sh endpoints
Output:
3: portainer (local) - ✓ online 4: production (remote) - ✓ online
containers# List containers on default endpoint (4) ./portainer.sh containersList containers on specific endpoint
./portainer.sh containers 3
Output:
steinbergerraum-web-1 running Up 2 days cora-web-1 running Up 6 weeks minecraft running Up 6 weeks (healthy)
stacks./portainer.sh stacks
Output:
25: steinbergerraum - ✓ active 33: cora - ✓ active 35: minecraft - ✓ active 4: pulse-website - ✗ inactive
stack-info./portainer.sh stack-info 25
Output:
{ "Id": 25, "Name": "steinbergerraum", "Status": 1, "EndpointId": 4, "GitConfig": "https://github.com/user/repo", "UpdateDate": "2026-01-25T08:44:56Z" }
redeploy./portainer.sh redeploy 25
Output:
✓ Stack 'steinbergerraum' redeployed successfully
This will:
startstoprestart# Start a container ./portainer.sh start steinbergerraum-web-1Stop a container
./portainer.sh stop steinbergerraum-web-1
Restart a container
./portainer.sh restart steinbergerraum-web-1
Specify endpoint (default: 4)
./portainer.sh restart steinbergerraum-web-1 4
Output:
✓ Container 'steinbergerraum-web-1' restarted
logs# Last 100 lines (default) ./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1Last 50 lines
./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1 4 50
# After merging PR ./portainer.sh redeploy 25 ./portainer.sh logs steinbergerraum-web-1 4 20
./portainer.sh containers ./portainer.sh logs cora-web-1 ./portainer.sh restart cora-web-1
./portainer.sh status ./portainer.sh endpoints ./portainer.sh containers ./portainer.sh stacks
Problem: Stack redeploy fails with git auth error
Solution: The stack needs
repositoryGitCredentialIDProblem: Container name doesn't match
Solution: Use exact name from
./portainer.sh containerssteinbergerraum-web-1steinbergerraumProblem: Credentials not configured
Solution:
# Add to ~/.clawdbot/.env echo "PORTAINER_URL=https://your-server:9443" >> ~/.clawdbot/.env echo "PORTAINER_API_KEY=ptr_your_token" >> ~/.clawdbot/.env
"Redeploy the website" → ./portainer.sh redeploy 25"Show me running containers" → ./portainer.sh containers
"Restart the Minecraft server" → ./portainer.sh restart minecraft
"What stacks do we have?" → ./portainer.sh stacks
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 2026-01-25 | Initial release |
@..@ (----) ( >__< ) "Containers are just fancy lily pads ^^ ^^ for your code to hop around!"
Author: Andy Steinberger (with help from his Clawdbot Owen the Frog 🐸)
Powered by: Portainer API
Part of: Clawdbot Skills Collection
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