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."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"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."
"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."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"Could be more intuitive."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
Portainer is ranked 13th in Container Management with 1 review while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 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, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu Build Service, OpenShift Container Platform and VMware Tanzu Mission Control, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Mirantis Container Runtime.
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