We performed a comparison between Portainer and Rancher Labs 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."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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The customized deployment process is the most valuable feature in Rancher Labs."
"The solution is stable."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"Could be more intuitive."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
Portainer is ranked 13th in Container Management with 1 review while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 14 reviews. Portainer is rated 8.0, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portainer writes "A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Portainer is most compared with HashiCorp Nomad, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, VMware Tanzu Build Service, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Mirantis Container Runtime.
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