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Portainer

Score9.6 out of 10

224 Reviews and Ratings

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Screenshot of Portainer is a universal container management platform to help adopt and manage Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad and Edge environments.

Screenshot of Portainer is a universal container management platform to help adopt and manage Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad and Edge environments.

Portainer Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Portainer has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 224 ratings of Portainer's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Discovery Tools

    Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Security and Isolation

    Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Cluster Management

    Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Storage Management

    Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

    Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Resource Allocation and Optimization

    Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.

    Category average: 7.7

Who Buys & Uses Portainer

Portainer Reviews

What users are saying about Portainer.
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Incentivized
Daniel SeimView profile
CTO in Information Technology at Go Bigger GmbH (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had the problem that we had to orchestrate multiple docker containers manually. Now that we use Portainer, everything became a breeze. With the business edition, we don't have to manually check for updates. Furthermore, not having to manually create docker compose files is awesome. Including env files is also as easy as it gets. 2 thumbs up from me. Go and get Portainer! NOW!

Pros

  • Managing docker containers and stacks
  • Creating containers based on other containers
  • Including multiple sources for containers

Cons

  • label the "unused" images not as unused if a stack that is stopped uses them

Return on Investment

  • It makes onboarding of new colleagues a breeze

Usability

Using Portainer Overall

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Engineering (51-200 employees)

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

  • 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

Other Software Used

Kubernetes, Docker, Linux/Windows Cloud Server

Awesome product!

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Home lab. GUI visualization of containers and volume management.

Pros

  • easily displays containers that are running and ones that are not
  • configuration of variables within a container

Cons

  • This is just such a great product. It is so much better than working from the command line.

Return on Investment

  • the tool is so easy to understand it has saved me countless hours in managing my containers volumes and images

Usability

Portainer for the Win in a Cloud Native World!

Incentivized
Benjamin SwindleView profile
Platform Engineer in Marketing at Clarity Ventures, Inc. and Boedeker Plastics, Inc. (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a Platform Engineer that previously worked in the b2b integrated ecommerce space, and now I work in the industrial base, for a plastics manufacturer. I use Portainer for the same thing at both organizations, which is mainly to manage automations around our internal and external services, including custom applications built for our customers in the past. I use standalone Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes instances (all for different purposes), and have really enjoyed working in the platform. Not only is it extremely intuitive, but if you need any help whatsoever with using Portainer, their team is only a phone call or an email away. They're always more than willing to help you with your projects to show your organization how Portainer is a huge benefit! It is for these reasons, I would recommend Portainer to anyone in DevOps, IT, Software Development, or Platform Engineering! It's a time saver, and a life saver!!

Pros

  • Customer Service
  • Documentation
  • Support
  • Intuitive User Interface
  • Good User Experience
  • Performance
  • Easy to Install & Configure

Cons

  • Automatic Updates
  • Better Support for Kuberenetes

Return on Investment

  • The automations we're able to setup in Portainer has saved us time on deployments, which saves us money.
  • Developers no longer have to deploy their work, so they can focus on pure development tasks, saving us time and money.

Usability

Great product

Incentivized
Kristofer MaskerView profile
Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CemenTech (51-200 employees)

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

  • 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

Other Software Used

Watchtower, Bitwarden, Cloudflare

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