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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 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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"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 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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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?

It is very easy to use and integrate and you can easily install it or use it. You can add as many servers as you like. And get an instant response for each action you take. Also, you have a variety of features that you can take advantage of and it will make your life so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

An easier way to update the docker image of Portainer itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing containers and images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Its easy to use, to implement and to integrate into the infrastructure and the number of functions is awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

i doesn't found any downside yet and use it very often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Instead of managing my infrastructure with linux screens i used portainer to integrate all my infrastructure into docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Managing multiple docker instances from a single pane of glass makes the day-to-day operations a LOT EASIER! As a very small team, managing both the dev docker instances AS WELL AS the production docker instances makes it so much easier to have a consistent workflow, effective processes and efficient methodologies for the deployment, oeration and management of the fleet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

The connection to the Portainer agent, which runs on the production docker instance, can feel slow, depending on network conditions. Of course, that is a little harsh, as the snappy response of the on-prem Portainer instance skews your experience. Overall though, this is not an operational concern Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Consistency in container deployment in both dev and production - being quickly able to view, troubleshoot, compare and manage container deployments has reduced our TTR significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Diane Hannay of Portainer

Thanks Steve. We appreciate the review and the feedback. Great to hear that Portainer is making your operations easier and saving you time.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

I guess my favorite thing is being able to see at a glance what volumes/images are unused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

I've been having trouble with getting GitHub image repo (ghcr.io) to work properly. I still have to log into the command line and use docker pull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can manage multiple Docker hosts from one pane of glass. Portainer shows me when my images are out of date when I have a stack deployed. That is pretty great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

It gives a great User interface which makes my job a lot easier, and it makes container deployment and image management so much easier and I don't even have to write commands for deployment.

So simple to oversee, screen, and make docker holders and stacks. I'm a visual individual the capacity to do all of the progressed docker stuff through a web GUI was a dream come genuine. Moreover, I can fair include Portainer in my dev stacks and it's continuously there when I'm working.

Portainer CE is an awesome tool for container administration that can offer assistance to clients to streamline the whole process. One of its most critical points of interest is its user-friendly interface, which is idealized for individuals who are not recognizable to containers or those who essentially prefer a cleaner interface. Another good thing about Portainer CE is that it underpins different container orchestrators, counting Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. It moreover offers a wide range of additional features such as holder checking, which is able to assist you to create beyond any doubt that your administrations remain up and running without issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Portainer makes Docker unfamiliar to users, and can cause troubleshooting problems, and is confined to DOcker only. It does not support non-Docker environments and may not be as customizable as other container management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Portainer is the best for me because it makes me more productive and allows me to deploy containerized applications easily and quickly. Resource monitoring for containers is also very useful. Portainer comes with a registry of commonly used containers so you can use it like an app store for containers. Editing Dockerfiles and configuring containers from the web interface is much better than doing it from the command line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Portainer simplifies Docker container management with an intuitive, user-friendly interface, access control, and more features than any of its competitors. It is, hands down, the go-to choice for both experienced users and novices alike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Really the only thing I dislike about Portainer is it does too good of a job doing the work. New users can create and manage a Docker container without ever actually knowing anything about Docker. I'm a bit old school, so I feel like you should go through the pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The major problem that Portainer solved for us was a lack of expertise, we knew we should be utilitizing containers, but didn't have anyone on staff that was familiar with the process. Portainer allowed us to get up and running and start getting all the benefits of using containers without adding staff or downtime as we leveled up our skillsets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Portainer.io simplifies container management, GitOps, and Kubernetes integration.

User-friendly interface for easy container management, even for beginners.

Monitoring capabilities and resource tracking enhance container performance.

Seamless integration with GitOps workflows for streamlined continuous integration and deployment.

Full control over Kubernetes environment, with features for deploying, scaling, and monitoring containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Improvement needed in providing more detailed information on container redeployment failures.

Can you guys give more than 5 free nodes in the pro version? (lol, Oliver Twist here) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Container management in our staging and production enviroments, Portainer also helps change what should have been really technical and involve a lot of CLI and commands into a really pleasant experience.

monitoring and updating containers can not be any simpler, it's integration with Kubenetes wiped out a good chunk of the learning curve required to adopt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Diane Hannay of Portainer

Thanks for your great review! So nice to hear that you're enjoying the GitOps, monitoring, and resource tracking capabilities of Portainer.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

I use Portainer as a GUI to manage docker containers. The business problems it addresses is the complicated management of docker with lots of containers and using the command line. It's way easier to manage docker containers with Portainer due to the friendly Web GUI it provides. It literally makes the management really easy, for updating, creating, recreating and managing the containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

I don't have anything bad to say against Portainer. It will be cool if it had like a 2FA aditionally with any other type of authentication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The management of docker containers, creating, deleteing, updating, configuring and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Portainer?

Very easy to manage and update containers. Works well on all tested browsers including mobile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Have had issues updating but that was quickly resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Switching away from many VMs each running one service to a containerized system with less overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael P.
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What do you like best about Portainer?

At a glance monitoring for Docker environments, both large and small. Built-in compose integration makes life as a developer or a SysAdmin insanely easy. The duplicate/edit workflow for modifying running containers is nothing short of a godsend that everyone who uses Docker has wished for at some point. Automatic container image upgrades in the enterprise version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Portainer?

Kubernetes management seems somewhat half-baked, at least compared to out-of-the-box solutions like the console that comes with it. Annoying and tacky shilling for the paid product in the free one (taking the form of bright orange switches that are forced on or off, and there is no way to hide these). I wish it were possible for Portainer to update itself instead of requiring manual intervention outside. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Portainer makes it so I have to spend less of my limited time on managing my container environment. If I want to demonstrate some new application, the workflows make it easy for me to test, make changes, and redeploy much faster than I could from any other toolset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.