Item: Portainer
Rating: 10
Author: Kristofer Masker

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am running several services that my company sorely needed for collaboration. Portaimer makes it super easy for me to keep them updated and to test other containers that other departments want to try out with minimal cost and setup time. Our IT department, while small, is now able to expand with no extra costs to our small budget.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Management
Easy of use
Easy to administer

Cons

Updating Portaimer itself
Migrating containers to different servers
A little cleaner interface

Return on Investment

Allowed for more services
Can utilize more free software
Little resource cost

Usability

It's very good, could be improved with a few new services. If I could have anything, it would be a network management tool to make it easier to keep track of what I have running and for segmentation. Other than that, it has been awesome and expands what I can offer to my users and even clients in other environments.

Alternatives Considered

I have not used any other products.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Portainer go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Portainer again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Watchtower, Bitwarden, Cloudflare

Likelihood to Recommend

Running low resource containers is excellent. Many commercial software packages cannot work outside of the major OS offerings. I'd love to replace Microsoft with one pane of glass like Portainer, but I don't see it happening. I also wish there was a little more intuitive network management tools, but they are more for personal usage so it might not apply here.

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Great product