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Create your Pihole Container using Portainer!

Make folders to hold the data

cd
mkdir portainer
cd portainer
mkdir {etc-pihole,etc-dnsmasq.d}

On newer Ubuntu distros

• Disable and stop Ubuntu’s DNS resolver using

  sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
  sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
  

Open Portainer

• By navigating to your localhost:9443
• Login

Make sure you have your portainer repo templates

• Go to Settings and under App Templates
• Check Use external templates

  Paste this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SelfhostedPro/selfhosted_templates/master/Template/portainer-v2.json

  • Taken from this GitHub page

Go to App templates and look for Pihole

Click and Edit Advanced Settings

    ports:
      #Domain port 53 for DNS Queries
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      # "67:67/udp"  If you want Pihole to act as your DHCP server you will need to uncomment this
      #Port 1010 will be the internal port where 80 is the external ( you should change your ports so they don't interfere )
      - "1010:80/tcp"
      #Same as port 80 but this is for https traffic
      - "4443:443/tcp"
      # Changing the port 80 to 83 becausse im gonna use port 80 for something else (homer)
    # Add the path that you created here to store the Pihole data in-between upgrades 
    # Replace the username with yours
    volumes:
      - '/home/banjo/portainer/etc-pihole/:/etc/pihole/'
      - '/home/banjo/portainer/etc-dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/'

• I have commented UDP port 67 out. I let my router handle DHCP

  After editing click on deploy the container

Network Create (Optional)

• To create a direct attached macvlan ( edit the parent to your network interface, subnet, gateway and the ip to suit your network )

• sudo docker network create -d macvlan -o parent=enp7s0f1 –subnet=192.168.1.0/24 –gateway=192.168.1.1 –ip-range=192.168.1.5/32 pihole

Volume Create (Optional)

• Another way to create a volume is to specify the driver, file type, device and the name of the volume

• sudo docker volume create –driver local
  –opt type=ext4
  –opt device=/dev/md1
  Portainer-volume

Look for Login credentials

• Go back to Containers and open the logs for the pi-hole container
• Scroll and look for the user and password and go login
• Or use the command line and type docker logs pihole | grep random

Access pihole

• Open a new tab and enter http://pi.hole/admin or the ipaddress:port for what you linked to 80
• In my case I could also but http://localhost:83/admin

Add Block lists

Check out this Website for a list of common blocklisted domains There is also this link too from github

Use

You can edit your pc’s network adapter settings to use the IP address of the server you installed pihole on You can login to your router and edit the DHCP settings to assign the IP address to the devices on your network

Documentation

Docker CLI reference

Portainer Documentation

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