Item: Portainer
Rating: 10
Author: Duane Garner

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Portainer makes it incredibly easy to create safe, secure, isolated and sandboxed instances of applications that we are implementing in our infrastructure without the need to install applications and dependencies individually and deal with several often occurring issues such as version mismatching, dependency mismatching and so forth that require sometimes hours or overnight work to meet client deadlines having to troubleshoot those issues, or deal with their support team or often community forums.

Portainer takes all that hassle away and just works - and it's secure. I can't think of an issue that has been bigger for us, especially as a small team, than having to take unbelievably valuable time away from our revenue driving projects and/or clients than dealing with troubleshooting issues with infrastructure software we needed but wouldn't "just work."

Pros and Cons

Virtualization
Security
Scalability
Autoinstallation
User Interface
Onboarding

Centralizing Template Catalogue
Multifactor Authentication
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Most Important Features

User Interface
Security
Ease of Use
Reducing complexity
Reducing workload
Ease of backup and restore

Return on Investment

65% savings in time
20% increased roi
70% increased security posture

Alternatives Considered

The minor competitors we did try had somewhat similar features but lacked the professionalism and "feels good to use" sense that a product with the thought that comes into making a product that is well thought out and visually appealing such as Portainer has.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe in Virtualizing everything, if it at all possible. With that being said, Portainer addresses almost all use cases both for home hobbyists and for business critical production settings. Due to the nature of containers and how easy Portainer is to use, backing up mission-critical P0 applications during production usage is still simple and in the event of failure, would simply require you spin up the backed up image, which is exponentially simpler than backing up multiple files and associated databases spread out over the system, for a lay person to a tech person, Portainer has the advantage.

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Overall Satisfaction with Portainer