Name: Portainer
Rating: 4.6 (44 reviews)

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Updated 8th February 2024

What is Portainer?

Portainer is a 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 the adoption of containers. Portainer provides infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization.

Overall experience with Portainer

ENGINEER

30B + USD, Manufacturing

FAVORABLE

“Powerful But Simplified Container Management Features With Clunky In-Browser Terminal Usability”

5.0

Nov 10, 2025

Extremely easy to implement, easy to use UI and a must for both personal and professional use.

Systems Administrator

50M - 250M USD, Manufacturing

CRITICAL

“Remote Deployment Features Present Yet Traditional Methods Often Preferred Over Portainer”

3.0

Mar 24, 2026

Portainer does the job it's built for, but it also isn't the best container management/orchestration platform out there. It handles building and deploying containers into your environment and supports deployment to remote environments, which is very convenient at scale. However, Portainer's UI/UX is clunky, and I find it easier to deploy out of CLI and YAML files instead of using Portainer due to Portainer's own unique methods of handling deployments.

About Company

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Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2017

Head office location

Auckland, New Zealand

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

http://www.portainer.io

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Portainer Likes & Dislikes

It makes container management extremely easy. Easy way to control and modify each container's settings. It is easy to set up and keep the product updated. The possibility of using OAuth.

I do like being able to easily scale an environment through Portainer. This is harder to achieve via a CLI, and it is nice to have Portainer available for this purpose.

It works well for monitoring multiple containers through a clean UI. It's very easy to sort/filter/search for specfiic containers by name/tag/etc. Also the UI is very clean and easy to navigate.

The container terminals are a bit clunky to use. The way stacks and app templates work can be a bit tricky at first. The community edition might have some limitations.

Portainer isn't very intuitive, and isn't a good replacement for doing most deployments via CLI. I would rather just do my work from a bash terminal instead of using Portainer most of the time.

At times, the UI can get clunky around finding/identifying containers. Sometimes the search is not fuzzy enough where it will find containers with the search terms we use.

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50M-1B USD

Manufacturing

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Remote Deployment Features Present Yet Traditional Methods Often Preferred Over Portainer

10B+ USD

Powerful But Simplified Container Management Features With Clunky In-Browser Terminal Usability

Manager, Test Engineering

Services (non-Government)

Monitoring and Managing Multiple Containers Simplified With an Intuitive Interface

4.0

Apr 3, 2026

We use this for deployed containers in our development environments. It works very well for managing the container states and monitoring.

IT MANAGER

Portainer Makes Docker Management Accessible With Intuitive Interface Design

Nov 3, 2025

Portainer simplifies docker container management and turns docker into a really easy to manage tool.

IT SYS ADMIN

Easy to Use. It just works out of the box.

Nov 17, 2025

It's easy to setup, maintain, and use for those that are getting started with Docker.