As stated. I stood up about 8 containers using docker desktop. Eventually I realized Portainer would be more useful and they now have an app for iphone. Once I installed it, portainer has “limited access” to my containers because they were created outside of portainer. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to re-build these in Portainer?
If so, I have a few Docker containers that I need database data from that I really don’t want to lose. Is there a way to back up the data, and then re-create the same container from a backup in Portainer?
Still new to docker.
If you have mapped volumes (I hope you do^^) you can either create the containers the same 8with same paths) in portainer or as other suggest it use docker-compose file/syntax for it. But keep in mind that when you rely on portainer, then keep backup of your configs.
As more advanced user I can tell you, that I use docker, docker-compose, docker swarm from cli and have portainer “only for the quick look”. But this depends if you are cool with CLI or want to use a UI.