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Portainer

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4.6

Overview

Product Information on Portainer

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.

Portainer Pricing

Portainer Business Edition comes in a few pricing models dependent upon the market segment and usage scenarios. Hybrid Cloud deployments are based upon node pricing, while Industrial IoT and Edge are based upon a server and node license model.

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Security and Compliance
Security and Compliance
Deploy Containers
Deploy Containers
Platform Management
Platform Management

Overall experience with Portainer

It Associate
<50M USD, Construction
FAVORABLE

“Graphical container management with easy installation and centralized monitoring”

4.0
Mar 25, 2026
User-friendly, graphical interface for managing containers (Docker / Swarm / Kubernetes).
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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

Company Description

Updated 25th January 2024

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.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
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 Reviews and Ratings

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4.6

(44 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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75%
4 Star
20%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

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  • Systems Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    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.
  • It Associate
    <50M USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Graphical container management with easy installation and centralized monitoring

    4.0
    Mar 25, 2026
    User-friendly, graphical interface for managing containers (Docker / Swarm / Kubernetes).
    Automated Translation from German
  • SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    The tool simplifies container organization, but has intuitive weaknesses.

    5.0
    Dec 1, 2025
    A super useful tool for organizing and managing my set-up containers.
    Automated Translation from German
  • Manager, Test Engineering
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    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 SYS ADMIN
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

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

    4.0
    Nov 17, 2025
    It's easy to setup, maintain, and use for those that are getting started with Docker.
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User Sentiment About Portainer
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Portainer Likes & Dislikes

Like

Simple, quick installation on existing UNIX VMs, integration of existing containers, monitoring via logs/status centrally possible.

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Like

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.

Like

It is relatively quick and easy to set up.

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Dislike

External stacks can be monitored in Portainer. However, editing is sometimes very limited. Either the stacks must be regenerated via Portainer, or they must continue to be edited via the console.

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Dislike

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.

Dislike

In some places, it is not entirely intuitive and is confusing.

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