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What is Portainer?

Portainer is a universal container management platform to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure containerized applications across cloud, data center, edge, and Industrial IoT use cases. Portainer is trusted by customers across various industries, including financial services, information technology, manufacturing, energy, automotive, and healthcare, to simplify container adoption securely and with exceptional speed. Portainer offers the perfect blend of infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization. Portainer provides extensive support for container orchestrators across every deployment scenario and helps bridge the knowledge gap within every organization.

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Portainer is a universal container management platform to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure containerized applications across cloud, data center, edge, and Industrial IoT use cases. Portainer is trusted by customers across various industries, including financial services, information technology, manufacturing, energy, automotive, and healthcare, to simplify container adoption securely and with exceptional speed. Portainer offers the perfect blend of infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization. Portainer provides extensive support for container orchestrators across every deployment scenario and helps bridge the knowledge gap within every organization.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Portainer is comparable to Rancher, Mirantis, and OpenShift. You can read a detailed comparison report on 3 of these products in this blog post.
https://www.portainer.io/blog/portainer-vs-rancher-vs-openshift


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Portainer
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2017
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Auckland, NZ
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@portainerio
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44 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Portainer is a powerful yet easy-to-use management tool for Docker and Kubernetes that simplifies container and microservices management for enterprises. By providing a centralized, intuitive interface, Portainer allows you to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications with minimal complexity. It's designed to streamline operations for DevOps teams, enhance security, and accelerate software delivery, all while reducing the learning curve associated with container orchestration. Whether you're managing applications in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge, Portainer ensures consistent, efficient, and scalable operations.


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4.0 out of 5
"A userfriendly tool"
Easy to setup, user friendly for those who have just started in this field , the best integration with docker and it's effective deployments.
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"Portainer is very user-friendly"
Portainer excels in Ease of Use with an intuitive, clean interface that makes managing containers, images, and networks effortless, even for those ...
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"A user friendly interface for docker"
I started as a non expert, knew nothing about docker but Portainer helped me a lot because of it's simplified way of docker management and integration
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What do you like best about Portainer?

Easy of installation and the option to deploy microk8s. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

The fact that when/if you enable k8s you end up using an extra license?! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped me deploy docker containers in a way that is secure and easy to manage. I also deployed a microk8s cluster that was amazingly easy to deploy and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Even though I’m comfortable with the command line, I appreciate how Portainer offers a visual layer that speeds up tasks like container monitoring, log tracking, and stack deployment. It’s handy for quickly getting an overview of everything running, and I find myself using it when I want to save time on routine tasks or to get a nice overview of everything running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

To be honest, for the kind of use that I have for it, which is outside of automated environments in which I prefer to have things more integrated into IaC workflows, there's really nothing that I don't like about portainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Portainer makes it so much easier to manage the basic apps I run in my homelab. Instead of jumping between terminal commands or tracking everything manually, I get a simple dashboard where I can see the status of all my containers at once. It saves me time and hassle, especially when I just want to check logs, restart an app, or make quick updates. It’s taken a lot of the stress out of keeping things running smoothly, letting me focus on experimenting with new setups instead of constantly managing the old ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pierpaolo L.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

Centralized management of any container, with a beatiful UI and the stcks that help to monitor easily complex deployment of multiple containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Nothing, I'd only add some monitoring dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manage all the containers from an easy UI instead of command line, centralizing the different deployments with the stacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joel J.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

It's easy to allow others to manage a docker stack that I've implemented.

It's easy to migrate compose files and docker builds in from another system, because there are a lot of import features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

There isn't a license that I feel fits very small teams very well. I wish there was a license geared towards a small development team, maybe 2-3 nodes for environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing several docker stacks on a headless server that need to be administered by others who don't have commandline docker skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

I started as a non expert, knew nothing about docker but Portainer helped me a lot because of it's simplified way of docker management and integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

I face issues in performance during large deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enhances security and also access control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

The ability to deploy, monitor, and control containers, stacks, and volumes from a web-based dashboard simplifies operations significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Troubleshooting errors can be difficult due to limited log visibility compared to CLI tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Portainer simplifies container management with a visual interface, saving time and reducing complexity in Docker and Kubernetes administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeff J.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

- stacks are a clean way to manage multiple compose files

- insight into containers including console output and network details

- simple isolated networking

- management of multiple host devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Grammar-based autocomplete in Stack editor would be very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing 10s of images and containers is simplified by GUI with status indicators and async command execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

webhooks + easy configuration of env variables + gui form of docker management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

a bit clumsy at first but due course one can learn the functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Management of dockers containers on our private servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

This software is easy to deploy on a number of OSs. It's agent is also just as easy to deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

If you are a home lab or a testing sandbox the hoops required to jump through to receive and or pay for a license may be a barrier to entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managining a number of docker servers and kubernetes clusters would be a tedious nightmare without Portainer. The ability to create stacks within Portainer is a godsend! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raja Harsh Vardhan S.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

1. Simple and Intuitive UI

2. Multi-Platform Support

3. Easy Container Deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

network management is confusing, a bit tricky in the starting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Portainer solving and how is that benefiting you?

Container management makes easy to manage containers and machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.