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Portainer - quick and easy deployment and maintenance of your Docker environments
December 01, 2022

Portainer - quick and easy deployment and maintenance of your Docker environments

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

We use Portainer to manage our docker stack in both a production and remote offsite (backup) environment. We like the simple way you can manage the containers and the ability to quickly diagnose issues without having to resort to the command line. The ability to add separate environments together with Portainer-BE is also a plus. It enables you to quickly check the status of your servers.
  • Nice interface
  • Simple control of Containers
  • Ability to network environments quickly and easily
  • Good docker compose implementation
  • You could have easier templating for launching the most commonly used applications
  • Easier way to deploy environmental variables that remain consistent
  • Automated checkups for stale images or volumes.
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of monitoring
  • Ease of deployment
  • Saves time when needing to diagnose what's running and what's fallen over
  • Easy to upgrade containers when needed, plus the ability for this to be done automatically is a bonus.
Portainer was just easier to use and set up. Having had extensive experience with the community edition, it was easy to opt for business.

Do you think Portainer delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Portainer's feature set?

Yes

Did Portainer live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Portainer go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Portainer again?

Yes

Portainer is great for small businesses and homelabs. You can quickly get to grips with Docker without needing to resort to the command line. It's quick and simple to install. By tying together our various environments, you can see the status of all of your containers in a few mouse clicks, allowing you to take action if needed.

Portainer Feature Ratings

Container Management
8.2
Security and Isolation
10
Cluster Management
8
Storage Management
7
Resource Allocation and Optimization
9
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
7

Portainer Support

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!
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
I did not. Thus far, I haven't needed it.
I was trying to implement a link between a windows 11 WSL2 instance and the rest of my Portainer nodes. I was struggling to make the connection. One of their support guys jumped on a call immediately and after sharing a screen, took me through the whole process explaining some nuances with WSL2 and how to fix it in the future.