Item: Portainer
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Portainer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

While I work in an R&D department and have to deal daily with containers for various projects across many different servers and VMs, Portainer made it easy for me to deploy them quickly and effectively. Furthermore, maintaining and monitoring these containers, their networks, and their volumes with Portainer saves me a lot of working time. Additionally, with Portainer you have the ability to operate Docker Swarm and Kubernetes Clusters. Finally, the option of controlling a remote server using the Portainer Agent is a huge plus.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Remote monitoring, maintenance, deployment of an Environment with Portainer Agent
Easy way to deploy Containers with templates
Easy way to create networks and volumes
Easy way to customize .env files
Easy way to assign ports of container to ports outside the container
Easy way to deploy stacks

Cons

Export the deployed stacks as a template
Make stacks that were created outside Portainer, Control Total not limited, as the stacks that are deployed with Portainer
Provide more application templates

Return on Investment

Less working hours for deployment
Less time needed to adapt changes
Easy remote maintenance

Usability

Until now the overall usage of Portainer made it easy for me to understand many things about the structure of a container docker-compose.yml file and how can I modify it depending on my needs easily through the Web Editor. However, some things have to be improved as in many cases while I am using Web editor to deploy a container if fails while if it deployed from the CLI it succeeds.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

From my experience if you are to to deploy containers in a large scale and across different servers and you have an easy way to do this Portainer is the right choice. Furthermore, as you may want to maintain and monitor these containers while you want a fast way to make appropriate changes and redeploy them fast then you have to use Portainer.

A very good software that solved my problems and gained me extra working time!