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 best thing about Kubernetes is that most of the containerized applications are centralized."
"The most valuable features of Kubernetes are the integration with Docker and there is plenty of documentation available. We work with Docker as a container, and it is more integrated with Docker than VMware Tanzu."
"We use this solution for the hosting of micro-services. Kubernetes helps us to orchestrate all the containers hosting these micro-services."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is the integration with other solutions, such as Formative and Grafana."
"You have different pods that interact with each other, so you can identify problems with one pod and replace it."
"It is a very good solution for deploying microservices in an application. It has a lot of freedom in it, which makes it very interesting. It is also web-enabled. You can run services in other virtual applications and virtual machines."
"Provides auto rollback and scale-up and scale-down functionalities."
"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 virtual machines should be GUI-based"
"We would to have additional features related to security within the API, instead of needing to install add-ons."
"The platform could be more convenient to use."
"Setup was not straightforward."
"It would be useful to have a basic and stable interface for monitoring and quick deployment purposes, especially when the deployments are big like a proof of concept or proof of technology. Currently, you need to use the Kubernetes console for all functionalities. It is not a quick-to-learn product if you are not from a Linux background. You need to be very skilled at Linux to learn it quickly. It took me two to three months because I mostly work with Microsoft products. For people who are not from a Linux background, the learning curve is a little bit longer."
"The dashboard, monitoring, and login need improvements."
"Kubernetes is a bit complex, and there's a steep learning curve. At the same time, I cannot imagine how it could be easier. You need many add-ons to it, and the commercial releases of Kubernetes should address that."
"I think that the GUI dashboard in Kubernetes is very simple and that there are no great options."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 69 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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