Preface

Main idea: Add Env variables in Portainer

Reading

fundamentals - Environment variables in docker run - Environment variables in Compose

Environment variables

What is Docker environment variable?

Set environment variables (-e, –env, –env-file)

When running the command, the Docker CLI client checks the value the variable has in your local environment and passes it to the container. If no = is provided and that variable is not exported in your local environment, the variable won’t be set in the container.

I need to set an environment (ENV) to connect/linked phpmyadmin to mySQL database

  • PMA_HOST: (is not container name!)
  • PMA_PORT: