How to connect to an agent with agent_secret ?

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I have install docker desktop with Portainer extension. I have an agent connect to my portainer server.
I want to set agent_secret with my current agent and connect via portainer. But it seem it doesn't have a additional parameter/value for adding agent in Environment ( Only the name and Environment address ).

Do I need to set additional parameters for this extensions?

I'm kinda stuck on this problem and I try to work around the UI.
PS: I have set agent_secret on my agent, Now I'm stuck how to connect to it via portainer extension on docker desktop

[yajith]

Hello,

You could try the following method.

1. Enable "Show Docker Extensions system containers" in settings
   

2. Containers > View Details > View Configurations > Open in IDE > Add the variable AGENT_SECRET: "yoursecret" under environment, save and refresh

3. In Portainer extension UI, under environment > add agent (now the agent secret var will appear on the docker run command snippet).
   

With above changes in place, I was able to create an agent and connect it to Docker desktop > Portainer extension.
In my case, the agent was also running in WSL2 Ubuntu. Depending on where your agent is running, you will have to get the network communication to work.

cheers,
yajith

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Thanks you so much mate, this work perfectly from my end. This should be documented on the official portainer doc.