Portainer

Score9 out of 10

233 Reviews and Ratings

What is Portainer?

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 discovery and learning with its UI
Codify cloud-native best practices with design templates and default configurations
Consistently apply and centrally manage access, permissions and activity logging

Portainer can help with multiple use cases including -
Deploy c ontainers
Troubleshoot apps
Platform management
Security & Compliance
Lifecycle Management
IoT Device Management

Portainer Business is built on Portainer's open-source foundation, which boasts more than 1M users. Portainer is presented as a solution to transition to Kubernetes or speed up the adoption of containers inside an organization.

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Media

Portainer is a universal container management platform to help adopt and manage Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad and Edge environments.

Discovery Tools
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
Category average: 8.1
Security and Isolation
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
Category average: 8.5
Cluster Management
Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
Category average: 8.2

Storage Management
Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
Category average: 8.2
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.
Category average: 8.2
Resource Allocation and Optimization
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
Category average: 8

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Portainer made it a lot easier to manage, monitor and update the docker containers we use for software development, allowing us to save time and avoid errors during devops operations. In the past we needed a devops specialist for trivial tasks as start or stop a container, and now those operations can be done by the developers themselves.

Pros

Integration with git
Docker container update
Log viewing

Cons

Lack of a config backup option in the interface
Automated config backup tool
A way to upgrade Portainer itself easily

Return on Investment

Time spent by developers on devops tasks related to docker reduced by at least 50%
Drastic reduction of number of devops support requests

Other Software Used

PhpStorm, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Traefik

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Daniel Seim View profile

CTO in Information Technology at Go Bigger GmbH (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had the problem that we had to orchestrate multiple docker containers manually. Now that we use Portainer, everything became a breeze. With the business edition, we don't have to manually check for updates. Furthermore, not having to manually create docker compose files is awesome. Including env files is also as easy as it gets. 2 thumbs up from me. Go and get Portainer! NOW!

Pros

Managing docker containers and stacks
Creating containers based on other containers
Including multiple sources for containers

Cons

label the "unused" images not as unused if a stack that is stopped uses them

Return on Investment

It makes onboarding of new colleagues a breeze

Usability

Kristofer Masker View profile

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CemenTech (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am running several services that my company sorely needed for collaboration. Portaimer makes it super easy for me to keep them updated and to test other containers that other departments want to try out with minimal cost and setup time. Our IT department, while small, is now able to expand with no extra costs to our small budget.

Pros

Management
Easy of use
Easy to administer

Cons

Updating Portaimer itself
Migrating containers to different servers
A little cleaner interface

Return on Investment

Allowed for more services
Can utilize more free software
Little resource cost

Usability

Other Software Used

Watchtower, Bitwarden, Cloudflare

Bartosz Gajdemski

IT Administrator in Customer Service at Bartosz Gajdemski - Usługi Informatyczne (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

If you work on a docker this is a 'must have' for You! Working on Portainer is a pleasure now. Very fast answers from technical support, I asked about business license and got an answer after 5minutes! In addition, the ability to pick up a business license for 3 nodes is really cool. I recommend and i'm very satisfied!

Pros

Fast Support
Very nice Portainer UI
Easy to use

Cons

Additional language packs

Return on Investment

Free license have a lot of options
Saving time
It's free for 3 nodes with a business license, so don't wait and get a license on Take3 Offer!

Other Software Used

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenVPN Access Server

Traian Antonescu

Software Engineer in Engineering at Meta (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Managing docker containers and deployments can't be any easier than this. Docker-compose and other cli tools can be ok but there are definitely many occasions where you would like to better visualize and more efficiently manage your stacks, volumes, containers, images, etc. Doing all that in any browser, on your phone as well as having web hooks are definitely a plus.

Pros

Manage docker stacks
Visualize deployments
Community support
Efficient and lightweight

Cons

Too abstracted for advanced use cases
Scalability concerns for very large use cases

Return on Investment

Reduce overhead
Improved efficiency
Simplified container management

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SUSE Rancher

Other Software Used

Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

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Discovery Tools

Security and Isolation

Cluster Management

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Storage Management

Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

Resource Allocation and Optimization

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