The only way to make local containers behave like you tell them to!
June 07, 2023
The only way to make local containers behave like you tell them to!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Portainer
As the world moves more and more to containerized environments, not just with clusters in the cloud but right from the start on developer-machines, it's easy to get lost in the command-line when all you realistically need is to "get stuff done".
So with portainer we have a simple but powerful UI that even apprentices can pickup and understand in a fraction of the time it would take to teach all the nooks and crannies of the command-line.
No matter if we just need to spin-up a simple container as a testrunner or manage networks between projects, it's just a breeze and every minute we safe in comparison to doing it "the purist way" translates to at worst higher revenue and at best a happier feeling once your day is over because you've completed your work and didn't have to jump through some mental hoops or leave with that eerie feeling that "something didn't feel right with how I solved that".
So with portainer we have a simple but powerful UI that even apprentices can pickup and understand in a fraction of the time it would take to teach all the nooks and crannies of the command-line.
No matter if we just need to spin-up a simple container as a testrunner or manage networks between projects, it's just a breeze and every minute we safe in comparison to doing it "the purist way" translates to at worst higher revenue and at best a happier feeling once your day is over because you've completed your work and didn't have to jump through some mental hoops or leave with that eerie feeling that "something didn't feel right with how I solved that".
- Visually represent the state of "what's running how" on your docker Host
- Easy UI to configure & run containers
- Right balance between free & paid features
- 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.
- Self-hosted and up&running in minutes on a new host
- Easy to learn / get familiar with
- Just enough to get all it needs to do done while not bloating it with things that get tacked on just for the sake of widening the target audience
- Instead of having 1 senior who does all the setup, debugging and caretaking of "all things docker" we now split the load on basically everyone in the team. Hard to put into direct numbers but with everyone helping themselves, noone alone is forced into that position "because you know how to do it" and overall we're more productive
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