portainer

What This Skill Does

The Portainer skill for OpenClaw provides a powerful interface for interacting with your Portainer CE environments. It acts as a bridge between the OpenClaw AI agent and your Docker infrastructure, enabling automated management of containerized applications without requiring manual access to the Portainer web UI. By leveraging the Portainer HTTP API, this skill allows users to list environments, audit current container deployments, and manage complex Docker Compose stacks directly through natural language commands.

Installation

To begin using the Portainer skill, first ensure you have the OpenClaw CLI installed. Install the skill from the official repository by executing the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/leventsoft/portainer-skill-openclaw

Once installed, you must authenticate the connection to your Portainer server. Generate an API key within your Portainer CE instance settings and configure it in OpenClaw using the following command:

openclaw config set portainer.apiKey "your_token_here"

Use Cases

This skill is designed for DevOps engineers and system administrators who want to streamline infrastructure management. Common use cases include:

• Automated Deployments: Triggering new stack deployments using Docker Compose strings directly from an AI prompt.
• System Monitoring: Quickly querying the status of various environments to ensure services are running correctly.
• Cleanup Tasks: Identifying and removing orphaned or unused stacks to free up system resources.
• Deep Troubleshooting: Utilizing the execute_docker_command function to proxy raw Docker API requests, allowing the AI to inspect specific container logs, network configurations, or performance metrics.

Example Prompts

• "OpenClaw, list all my Portainer environments and tell me which stacks are currently deployed in the production environment."
• "Deploy a new Nginx stack in my local environment using this docker-compose content: [paste compose file here]."
• "Find the stack ID for the application currently failing in the dev environment and delete it for me."

Tips & Limitations

• Environment Scoping: Always verify the environment_id before executing commands, especially when running raw Docker commands, to avoid modifying the wrong container cluster.
• Permissioning: Ensure the API key provided to OpenClaw has the minimum required permissions to perform the necessary tasks. Following the principle of least privilege is recommended.
• Complexity: While the skill supports raw Docker command proxying, it is an advanced feature. For standard management, prefer using the dedicated list_stacks and deploy_stack functions, as they are safer and easier to track via the audit logs.