Item: Portainer
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are just starting to touch ground with it, but am sure it will make our lives much easier. Being a 2nd liner it is a lot easier to use it rather then going to the backend for troubleshooting, our use case for Portainer is docker only for the time being.
At home am planning to use it more and more by and learn about the more advanced features provided.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Stacks
Monitoring
UI
Easy to navigate

Cons

Setting up Active Directory
Kubernetes support
Continue improving what is already in place

Return on Investment

Faster deployment cycles
Intuitive GUI
Negative, not being used enough across docker hosts

Usability

Easy to use UI, making container management accessible for those with minimal Docker/Kubernetes experience a lot easier.
Provides a quick learning curve through the interface.
A plus for the more advanced users as well, not having to rely on DevOps teams for various simple tasks vis-a-vis container management.
Easy to deploy and set up on hosts.

Key Insights

Do you think Portainer delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Kubernetes, Docker, Linux/Windows Cloud Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Can't really think of any scenarios where it is less appropriate.
But it really works best for simplifying container management, monitoring and troubleshooting, and centralised management. You cannot got wrong with this combination. Used mostly for microservices deployment for on prem, also used in isolated environments for testing before production deployment.

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