We performed a comparison between Kubernetes and Portainer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."The most valuable feature of the platform is the ability to load some of the containers that were previously managed by humans."
"Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management."
"You have different pods that interact with each other, so you can identify problems with one pod and replace it."
"It's scalable."
"We use it for various large microservice-based architectures and web services. That's the ideal use case, but it's suitable for any kind of service that can be decomposed and needs to be scaled. Of course, it's much easier to deploy services that are stateless. It"
"The implementation, and the way that they can, with a few clicks, load hundreds of machines without any trouble is very useful."
"The autoscaling feature is the most valuable. Kubernetes itself is an orchestration tool. It automatically detects the load, and it automatically spins up the new Pod in the form of a new microservice deployment."
"The solution has many valuable features but the most impressive is the ability to scale an application and continuously monitor if all the components of the application are functioning correctly."
"Portainer comes with the ability to take the information of docker definition. Using it, I can visually observe how the container has been created. It allows me to create networks. I can also visually generate volumes and working stacks."
"In the financial service sector, I'd rate scalability an eight out of ten. But do it in a controlled manner, not auto-scaling. If your application has a bug and you enable the autoscaler, it will spike your costs. If someone deploys an application with a bug, that's automatically a problem."
"The configuration is a bit complicated."
"Kubernetes is incredibly complicated, so one area of improvement is the ease of administration. I would like a user interface that you can run to help you debug and diagnose problems and suggest how to configure things."
"They should make documentation simpler for learning."
"There are features in Google Cloud or AWS that aren't in Azure. They need to implement a couple more tools in Azure."
"Having a thread dump and memory dump, and seeing how many objects were created would be useful."
"Security could be improved. It would be helpful if there were other security modules built into Kubernetes."
"They should update Kubernetes more regularly."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 73 reviews while Portainer is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review. Kubernetes is rated 8.6, while Portainer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Kubernetes writes "Container orchestrator that deploys our machine learning solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Portainer writes "A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser". Kubernetes is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Diamanti, whereas Portainer is most compared with Rancher Labs, HashiCorp Nomad, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, VMware Tanzu Build Service and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
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