Item: Portainer
Rating: 9
Author: Milos Kostic

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Portainer as a single tool to manage environments across multiple clients, projects teams and technologies. It allows us to have an abstraction layer from which we can do CI, RBAC controls, and basic container interaction no matter which technology is used (Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad).

Pros and Cons

Orchestration layer abstraction
RBAC
SSO

CI/CD
API
Ecosystem

Most Important Features

Docker and Kubernetes support
OAuth
RBAC
Gitops

Return on Investment

Standardization of deployment environments
Cheaper CI/CD pipeline development

Alternatives Considered

SUSE Rancher

Benefits of Portainer compared to Rancher:

Resource usage
Complexity
Stability

Key Insights

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Portainer go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Portainer again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Google Workspace, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure App Service

Likelihood to Recommend

Portainer is most usefull in following scenarios: Service provider companies that manage multiple clients. Ability to start with basic infrastructure and graduate to a more complex one when needed. Provide large organizations with access to an experimentation environment.

Portainer as a tool for software service providers

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer