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 ease of use if the solution is a very valuable aspect for us."
"There are features that come out of the box with Kubernetes, with respect to scaling, reliability, etc. It's the leading container management platform. There are other competing ones, but this is the leading one. It has multiple instances of the application running. If one of them goes down, the other one automatically spins up."
"Provision of a managed platform as a service."
"Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management."
"I like that it has really boosted cloud-native development and stood the test of time. The underlying architecture allows one to scale as per the business KPIs much faster."
"The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is automation. It is the best tool for automation."
"The best thing about Kubernetes is orchestration. It is very good. We will not see much downtime unless there are some human errors. We do not see much downtime or issues with the container or automation."
"It is a stable and scalable product."
"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."
"It's good for bigger organizations, but for smaller organizations or a few workloads, it may be too heavy, not easy to deploy, and the ROI may be less because it requires a control plane, worker nodes, and multiple VMs to run."
"Some Kubernetes technical support would be helpful."
"It's complex to manage and requires specialists."
"The solution could be more stable."
"Management features could be simplified."
"Setup was not straightforward."
"The Kubernetes dashboard can be improved. It is currently a mess. We were using Rancher earlier, and everyone was happy with the dashboard. Right now, we are using Kubernetes, and it's not working with Microsoft workstations. We still have problems with the dashboard. It's terrible."
"This product should have a more advanced built-in scheduler that uses real application metrics in the scheduling strategy."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 68 reviews while Portainer is ranked 13th 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, Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Google Kubernetes Engine and NGINX Ingress Controller, whereas Portainer is most compared with Rancher Labs, HashiCorp Nomad, VMware Tanzu Build Service, OpenShift Container Platform and VMware Tanzu Mission Control.
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