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Portainer Overview

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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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
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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Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace
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What do you like best about Portainer?

- Streamlined workflow

- Ease of use

- Ease of keeping Portainer updated

- responsive

- little overhead/efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

- Easier way to globally update all stacks with new images needs to be available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easier overview and management of Docker containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

The simple operation, the intuitive menu navigation, the update capability, all functions are where you expect them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

So far, nothing at all, I love Portainer, it makes operation very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The management of our containers now works simply and securely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about Portainer?

Simple and nice to use UI which is feature-complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Sometimes one can get lost in the large amount of options, menus and tabs as the UI tends to be a bit messier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Abstraction of low level concerns within a UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

management of images and containers,

easy to spin up containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

less to no control over stacks made outside portainer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

no need of using cli for managing dockers

and easy to manage and pull images

to make stacks, volumes etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Its ease of installation and implementation, its light weight and ease of use in work environments as well as for personal projects. The support it has to resolve doubts and especially that it is very easy to integrate with Docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

The characteristic of not being able to use relative paths in the community version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

One of the main problems that Portainer helps to solve in the workplace is that of the many containers that you may sometimes be running on a server, Portainer completely resolves container management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Portainer excels in Ease of Use with an intuitive, clean interface that makes managing containers, images, and networks effortless, even for those new to containerization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Newcomers might also face a slight learning curve when integrating Portainer into complex, existing workflows, despite its overall accessibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ease of integration with docker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

We use Docker a lot with many mission-critical containers. The web UI on Portainer is useful for making sure everything is working great. I especially like the "healthy" tag on the containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

There isn't much I dislike about Portainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Keeping track of healthy containers can be cumbersome and annoying through the command line. Having a web UI to do makes it much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Easy-to-navigate dashboard simplifies container management

Minimal resource usage without compromising functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Challenges in scaling for very large environments due to pricing.

Costs may increase for enterprise features and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Really simplifies Docker management with an easy interface - it also allows you to manage multiple environments from a single dashboard, streamlining operations and saving time. Free Tier allows for 3 nodes which give you ample flexibility to test and use the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Acquiring a free trial is easy and great tool to get to know the product, the interface is fun and dynamic, very helpful to manage containers for small and large companies and easy to install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

During my time of experience, I could not highlight any negative aspect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy management of containers, provides a complete view of docker containers as well as detailed reports on container status, streamlining the workflow and allowing better use of working time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ansh B.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

The interface that helps me manage my home nodes from anywhere on phone. And the ability to interconnect them all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

It's often confusing on what things go where. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Remote management on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.