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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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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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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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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 Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Portainer?

Portainer makes managing containers so much easier. You can just throw the image url in an it will spin up a container very quickly. There is also an API edge server so I can integrate my frontend app to quickly make a service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

I don't think there is a major issue while using Portainer but there should be a section where I can create a volume with the container without using stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automated container management (Edge server) and multiple container cluster management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Portainer's UI gives a simple-to-read overview of the health of my unversity containers. These containers manage important tools that are indispensible to some students. Portainer makes checking up on these programs easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Portainer's update notifications get in the way of key UI elements sometimes, but it is not a major concern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Before Portainer, we used scripts to detect and display any container issues in a digestable manner in the terminal. For a busy student it quickly became clunky having to use terminal apps on their school laptop. With Portainer we are able to monitor and manage containers easily using the web rather than a small terminal window, leading to increased uptime for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thank you for sharing your feedback about Portainer's update notifications. We appreciate your input and will consider it as we continue to improve our product.

Verified User in Manufacturing
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What do you like best about Portainer?

It's easy to implement, easy to add and manage containers, and makes updating them quick as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Updating Portainer itself, keeping track of the network segmentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can add and remove containers to test them quickly and easily. It allowed me to explore new services for my users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Docker is oftentimes complicated, requiring a series of terminal commands to perform otherwise simple actions. Portainer provides a user interface that is both beautiful and functional. Our company services such as our DNS server and website can now be easily monitored via Portainer's interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Some aspects of Portainer seem to have some lack of thought to them. An example is the update prompt, which reminds the user to update. While not a bad idea, the prompt is loaded in half a second after the rest of the page, shifting the entire page down. The result is the click, to select a specific server in the dashboard, selecting a different instance. This is a very minor annoyance that could easily be solved by moving the reminder away from the top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Portainer addresses issues we face with Docker. Docker is operated using the terminal, which can be difficult to monitor especially at a glance. Portainer solves this issue with a user-friendly interface. The benefit showed itself recently when our DNS server malfunctioned. Portainer alerted us by showing an "unhealthy," tag on the container, allowing us to take action. The issue could have been overlooked had we not been using Portainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Great interface, simplifying management of containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Limited third-party integrations, RBAC and scaling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reducing time and effort to manage containers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
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What do you like best about Portainer?

We use portainer to manage all our containers and to automate the deployment of new builds.

In fact, what we love about Portainer is the GitOps updates feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

The only feature that I think Portainer is missing is global git credentials. At the moment git credentials are associated only with a single user and that is very limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For us, Portainer allowed us to automate the deployment for our internal services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing
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What do you like best about Portainer?

Ease of access and presentation of features. I also particularly appreciate the compose feature, especially when combined with GitHub access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

The Docker Desktop extension does not appear to support a license, and thus it doesn't appear to be able to save my GitHub credentials. However, this is a new way of using Portainer for me, as I generally use it running as a container from a docker compose file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Portainer significantly lowers the entry barrier for learning how to use and manage Docker containers.

It provides easy access to status readouts of containers and service stacks, logs, etc. While these are obtainable from the standard Docker CLI, Portainer displays them from a web GUI that can show more information at a glance and provides many actions and information with just a couple of clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

I really like how Portainer makes docker service's management so much easier.

My prefered feature is the hability to easily implement stacks using git integration, as it gets really streamlined with other software development flows we currently use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

I think Portainer misses an easy backup and restore feature - either options to export and import a full config file on the control panel, or options to automate a remote backup embeded on the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It makes easier for us to monitor, deploy and update docker containers in our software development servers, avoiding a good amount of manual work and also enabling non-devops-experts to do a few procedures safely and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

As said, the ease of use (without the need of console) in a webinterface, whith the ability of multiple users and over a secure connection is a great win, especially in my very small docker environment. Also the recent check of running contrainers for current image versions is a nice benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Missing a progress of docker-compose while starting up stacks (downloading image x%, starting...). Even the bare docker-compose output would be sufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The need for console access for simple docker administrative actions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Commercial Real Estate
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What do you like best about Portainer?

It's a simple-to-use container management system that you can use from the web. It runs in Docker and allows me to manage all of my systems (I'm currently managing two Docker standalone instances, and a Kubernetes cluster).

Having a simple and well-documented web-ui makes managing these systems so much easier, as I don't have to do everything from the cli (command line interface). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Although it isn't specifically designed to do so, according to their own documentation, Portainer can work with podman (a docker alternative). I have tried this on several occations, and have had barely-usable results. The glitches and issues when using podman make it impractical to use Portainer over the normal cli.

If Podman implemented native podman support, it would cover all my needs for container management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a way to manage our cluster from a website rather than via the cli. Portainer is the most popular (and to my knowledge, the best!) way of accomplishing this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.