Portainer

Portainer

Portainer

234 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Portainer	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Portainer is a centralized container management platform for containerized apps and IoT device management. It helps accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Kubernetes, Docker, and Swarm with a management portal, allowing users to deliver and manage containerized applications from the data center to the edge. Portainer helps - Reduce the operational complexity associated with multi-cluster management Bridge the skills gap and facilitate feature…	$0

Pricing

Portainer

Editions & Modules

Portainer Business - 3 Nodes Free: $0
Home & Student: $149
per year
Starter: $995
per year
Professional: $2995
per year
Enterprise: Contact Sales for Pricing
per year

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Portainer
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

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Community Pulse
	Portainer
Considered Both Products	Portainer Kristofer Masker Systems Administrator Chose Portainer I have not used any other products. Incentivized Helpful? BG Bartosz Gajdemski IT Administrator Chose Portainer The reason I chose Portainer is that graphically it wins over Yacht, it has many more options to use even in the free version. You can connect more than one environment to one panel which makes it much easier to use multiple instances of Portainer and saves a lot of time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Portainer Dyrectorio was nice but it feels unpolished Ugreen has docker management on its UGOS Pro and it seems quite nice for start but its UI is quite a bit worse then Portainer Another downside is that its GUI seems to be locked on a specific port for now Incentivized Helpful? TA Traian Antonescu Software Engineer Chose Portainer Had already more experience using Portainer and it was covering all immediate needs where scalability was not a concern. Definitely easier to use and to get started for anyone. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Leuenberger Developer Chose Portainer Portainer is open source and can be installed as a docker container. Portainer can also be used free of charge as a business edition for a limited number of installations. All you have to do is register with Portainer and receive a license key. Portainer is very easy to install … Incentivized Helpful? Hannah Scott Software Developer Chose Portainer Azure and AWS have their own issues, especially around complexity just to setup one thing that Portainer can do in 10 seconds. Octopus Deploy has excellent logs, analytics and dashboard views - but the configuration is more of a hassle than Portainer. Overall for the projects … Incentivized Helpful? Rohan Sharma CEO Chose Portainer Portainer is very simple to use for anyone who is new to docker and trying to build a server. It makes everything super easy to use because of it’s excellent UI/UX which makes it a good tool for beginners! Incentivized Helpful? Sathir M. Mansoor Software Engineer Chose Portainer I wrote that earlier, I tried Docker desktop so many bugs with WSL and not free and it get sign out every login time, Tried SUSE Rancher too complicated and good only for power users and whoever runs Kubernetes and very heavy. tried Dokage very simple and couldn’t do … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Spharler Network Engineer Chose Portainer Portainer is, in my opinion, the most accessible and straight-forward means of entering the world of deploying and managing containers while also maintaining the ability to progress into advanced professional deployments and use. Incentivized Helpful? JB J Bissesar CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Portainer Portainer takes the cup in terms of usability and features. It is also more useful for smaller deployments, whereas Kubernetes in our opinion and experience, could probably be more suited to certain other use cases. Portainer is also a fresh feel among all the preexisting … Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Portainer Initially looked into using Rancher for container management but it is aimed more at kubernetes deployments. I have used both at home and liked Portainer more, especially since we are using docker standalone. From Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Portainer In Kubernetes management, in my opinion I would say that Lens is superior. But if you only want to manage a few stacks, Portainer is superior because the gui offers a comprehensive way of managing all the deployed images and its versions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Portainer Microsoft Azure, and arguably the leader in the field. The most negative point and which made us make the decision not to continue with them and to go with Portainer is the price. This is one of the most important points to consider, especially in small companies. Incentivized Helpful? HE Hans Erasmus CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Portainer None, really. All searches pointed to Portainer every time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Portainer I've only used Portainer for docker management Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Portainer Portainer is free and a lot easier to live with than Hyper-V Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Elemam Technical consultant Chose Portainer First time deployment is far easier in Portainer Incentivized Helpful? MM Marshal Miller Maintainer Chose Portainer The GUI and easy of use were incomparable. Incentivized Helpful? Viktor Herman DevOps Engineer Chose Portainer I am using Rancher in Kubernetes environments. It was really the first product I used with it and never really had time to test out how well Portainer behaves on Kubernetes. For the exact same thing - Docker Swarm management I used Swarmpit some time ago, but I like Portainer … Incentivized Helpful? RS Raji Smiley Solutions Architect Chose Portainer Of course it has to be stacked against Rancher, and to be frank Rancher is great. Honestly the comparision is like comparing MacOS to Windows. Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Portainer Portainer is a user-friendly container management platform focused on Docker, providing a simplified graphical interface. Kubernetes (K8s) is a robust container orchestration platform that automates deployment and scaling, suitable for complex container environments. Docker is … Helpful? PM Pedro Marcano Partner Chose Portainer Portainer is by far the friendliest, easiest to deploy, use, and maintain of these platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Portainer Portainer is a lot easier to use when compared to Kubernetes. it is easy to get over whelmed by all the options in Kubernetes but portainer makes it simple to build and deploy even to Kubernetes. Incentivized Helpful? AT Alexander Theis Network Engineer Chose Portainer Portainer seems to be the best when you start with small environments and can grow with them. Portainer is also good for beginners with not too much knowledge about containers. Finally the start-up with 5 nodes for free was a great benefit. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Portainer

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Portainer 8.2 94 Ratings 3% above category average
Security and Isolation	8.590 Ratings
Cluster Management	8.475 Ratings
Storage Management	8.280 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.883 Ratings
Discovery Tools	8.470 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.190 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Portainer
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (94 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (3 ratings)
Usability	8.4 (15 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Portainer
Likelihood to Recommend	Portainer Many developers, especially lesser experienced developers, don't have a really good background in setting up containers from the command line. Portainer is invaluable to them. Giving a UI to them gives them much more confidence and allows them to learn properties and capabilities of containers under far less stress. On the flip side of this, giving then a UI on a production system can lead to chaos...never give junior developers access to production servers. Incentivized Paul Allsopp Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Portainer Separating server maintenance with application development, providing a clear user interface for developers who don't want to worry about the underlying server. RBAC for container deployment linked to a SAML IDP, not something particularly easy in a native Docker instance but point and shoot in Portainer, allowing the use of Azure / Okta etc to provide user access. Image management with multiple repositories is super clear and reduces incidents Incentivized Phil Bristow Infrastructure Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Portainer When setting up static IPs for a new container, having the used ones for a specific network at hand would be cool or something like a mini IPAM of some sort... Using the developertools to see "oh, it's a 40x or 500" when something doesn't seem to load because the ui just states "Didn't work" is kinda annoying. expandable toasts or something would be nice. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Portainer It is an excellent tool. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Portainer Accessibility for Non-Experts: even with some people having a bit longer on-boarding it is still very simple Quick setup is insanely useful, we can get it running in 10 seconds after installing docker Portainer has once again super clean UI and is very user friendly. Deployment/monitoring and management are super easy. I can tell just from a glance if something is out of date (watching at you Watchtower not doing your job for some reason) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Portainer One of their staff members jumped on a video call immediately with me and led me through the problem and solution during a quick session of screen sharing. In this day and age that is above and beyond, especially when it comes to software. It took approximately 5-10 minutes to diagnose and fix, including pleasantries! Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Portainer It is really easy. Just follow the documentation. Incentivized HE Hans Erasmus CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Portainer Portainer takes the cup in terms of usability and features. It is also more useful for smaller deployments, whereas Kubernetes in our opinion and experience, could probably be more suited to certain other use cases. Portainer is also a fresh feel among all the preexisting container management solutions and brings positivity and a new breeze in the industry. JB J Bissesar CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Return on Investment	Portainer Increased productivity: Portainer's user-friendly interface and streamlined container management can help increase the productivity of IT teams. Cost savings: By simplifying container management, Portainer can help reduce the time and resources required to manage container environments, potentially leading to cost savings. Incentivized Mateus Bays Jr. Researcher of Software Development Read full review
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