Portainer

Score9.6 out of 10

224 Reviews and Ratings

What is Portainer?

Portainer is a centralized container management platform for containerized apps and IoT device management. It helps accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Kubernetes, Docker, and Swarm with a management portal, allowing users to deliver and manage containerized applications from the data center to the edge. Portainer helps -

Reduce the operational complexity associated with multi-cluster management
Bridge the skills gap and facilitate feature discovery and learning with its UI
Codify cloud-native best practices with design templates and default configurations
Consistently apply and centrally manage access, permissions and activity logging

Portainer can help with multiple use cases including -
Deploy c ontainers
Troubleshoot apps
Platform management
Security & Compliance
Lifecycle Management
IoT Device Management

Portainer Business is built on Portainer's open-source foundation, which boasts more than 1M users. Portainer is presented as a solution to transition to Kubernetes or speed up the adoption of containers inside an organization.

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

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

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

Daniel Seim View profile

CTO in Information Technology at Go Bigger GmbH (1-10 employees 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

Kristofer Masker View profile

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CemenTech (51-200 employees 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

Bartosz Gajdemski

IT Administrator in Customer Service at Bartosz Gajdemski - Usługi Informatyczne (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

If you work on a docker this is a 'must have' for You! Working on Portainer is a pleasure now. Very fast answers from technical support, I asked about business license and got an answer after 5minutes! In addition, the ability to pick up a business license for 3 nodes is really cool. I recommend and i'm very satisfied!

Pros

Fast Support
Very nice Portainer UI
Easy to use

Cons

Additional language packs

Return on Investment

Free license have a lot of options
Saving time
It's free for 3 nodes with a business license, so don't wait and get a license on Take3 Offer!

Other Software Used

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenVPN Access Server

Verified User

Administrator (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Portainer has significantly improved productivity by allowing me to easily manage all Docker containers in one place. Its intuitive interface reduces complexity, enabling quicker deployments and streamlined monitoring. This efficiency saves time, lowers operational costs, and simplifies container management, making it accessible even for teams with limited DevOps expertise. I really like managing stacks with it since it even has build in version control.

Pros

Version control of stacks
Clean GUI
Easy install
Simple updates

Cons

Port tester to see if ports are open from outside network
Monitoring tools and graphs
Customized alerts could be nice

Return on Investment

Time managing dependencies was almost reduced to 0, no more "works on my machine"
Initial learning curve seams to be quite bad for some people, about 2 weeks for basics at worst
Costs were a bit lowered since we moved a bit of stuff from cloud to local

Usability

Other Software Used

Windows Server, Linux Mint

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering (51-200 employees 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

Red Hat OpenShift

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

SUSE Rancher

Rafay

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Discovery Tools

Security and Isolation

Cluster Management

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Storage Management

Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

Resource Allocation and Optimization

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