KPS - How can I connect inside a container as root?

Procedure to connect as root on a KPS container

With our KPS, the best way to connect into a container is to deploy a Portainer on the KPS instance.

Create a portainer container

• Go into the app store
• Search for Portainer

• Deploy the Portainer service

Configure Portainer container

• Enable Websocket support in HTTP Settings of the application configuration
• Save & Restart the app
• Wait 60 seconds for the service to restart
• Enable HTTPS and add your custom domain in HTTP Settings of the application configuration

Connect to Portainer and ssh into a container

• Go to you portainer web server url
• Create your admin credentials for portainer

• Go to Home and Click on Live connect on local
• In the left menu, navigate to containers
• Use the shell quick action to connect to the container of your choice

• Use the correct Command ans User, try first with /bin/bash and if it is not working try /bin/sh. Use the user of your choice, if you require privileged in the container use root
• Connect to the container

Updated on: 09/11/2024