8000
. Through this port, the Edge Agent can poll the Portainer instance, connect to Portainer, see when it is required, then initiate a tunnel or receive configuration updates. Without port 8000
exposed on the Portainer Server instance, you cannot access the Edge endpoint. If you already deployed Portainer without this port open, you will need to redeploy with port 8000
exposed alongside the port used to access Portainer. Using the CLI flag --tunnel-port
you can set a different port if 8000
is already in use. For more information see CLI options.-e EDGE_INSECURE_POLL=1
. If you do not deploy Portainer with this flag, the agent cannot communicate with Portainer. This option is less secure than TLS.AGENT_SECRET
on your Portainer Server instance you must remember to explicitly provide this when deploying your Edge Agent.