When I started messing around with installing Home Assistant Container, I incorrectly assumed that everything would have to be installed through Portainer, but this assumption was incorrect. Nevertheless, Portainer is a common tool that gets used to install Home Assistant. If you're installing Home Assistant Container, I'm guessing one possible reason is because you don't want to install everything from a command line. Portainer has a lot of functionality to avoid the command line, and is a great visual interface to look in and out of containers, check the formatting of YAML files, or if you were using Docker Compose, copy the contents into the Stack page. So let's get started.