Portainer is awesome for small teams!
November 30, 2023

Portainer is awesome for small teams!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

I use Portainer each day to manage a few servers with all our company services deployed there. In my free time, I use Portainer to manage my Kubernetes cluster, and all my docker instances. The features that come with the business license are awesome, specially: OAuth (which I use in both my personal and job accounts), Automatic stack updates, GitOps features that support monitoring my stacks in GitHub... All of them are a huge save of time, and I highly recommend using the s3 backup feature. Just to be safe in case of disaster
  • GitOps Management of my stacks
  • Kubernetes Cluster Management
  • Home Server Management with a friendly GUI
  • Audit logging
  • Oauth integration
  • Backup Management
  • Image versioning monitoring
  • Templates should be more use, but they receive little to no advertisement
  • It made everything more manageable
  • It allows my company to easily implement gitops practices
  • It's more secure to manage everything if there is audit logs to identify who did a change
In Kubernetes management, in my opinion I would say that Lens is superior. But if you only want to manage a few stacks, Portainer is superior because the gui offers a comprehensive way of managing all the deployed images and its versions.

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

If you want to manage docker services in a comfortable way, this tool, it's awesome. But it should be used in scenarios where you expect to manage a thousand of docker containers. The strong point of Portainer it's, in my opinion, a home server or a production server with just a bunch of stacks deployed. In my opinion, it lacks the capacity to manage thousands of services in an easy way.

Portainer Feature Ratings

Security and Isolation
10
Cluster Management
6
Storage Management
3
Resource Allocation and Optimization
10
Discovery Tools
10
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
10