Portainer FTW
August 13, 2024

Portainer FTW

Paul Allsopp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

I use Portainer daily to build new containers, and update images. I create new containers for development purposes and create stacks to set up development environments. I regularly create "golden" images to test situations, and doing so in Portainer is a breeze. I can create a base image, attach to it, then install tools, configure applications, detach and save the state of the image... This is a great feature.

Pros

  • Image creation from running containers
  • Fast container deployment from app templates
  • Network isolation

Cons

  • Custom stack templates are missing. While app templates are easy, custom stack templates would be awesome... 1-click LAMP system in multiple containers
  • Better image management is needed
  • Better volume management is also needed
  • Portainer allows me to accept new clients quicker, due to the speed I can replicate their servers
  • Being able to confidently tell a client I can analyze their site adds a huge boost of confidence to our relationship
Portainer is very easy to use, has an intuitive UI, and makes creating individual containers or stacks very easy. My favorite feature by far is having the ability to create a base image, then create a container and set it to always pull the image. Then I can modify the image on the fly, restart the container and know I'm working from a cumulative environment. I would like to see this developed further.

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

Many developers, especially lesser experienced developers, don't have a really good background in setting up containers from the command line. Portainer is invaluable to them. Giving a UI to them gives them much more confidence and allows them to learn properties and capabilities of containers under far less stress. On the flip side of this, giving then a UI on a production system can lead to chaos...never give junior developers access to production servers.

Portainer Feature Ratings

Container Management
7.4
Security and Isolation
8
Cluster Management
8
Storage Management
7
Resource Allocation and Optimization
8
Discovery Tools
Not Rated
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
6

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