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."I like Kubernetes' scalability, built-in redundancy, and ease of deployment."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the scalability."
"Once you get it configured properly, it's a stable solution."
"I like that it gives you all the flexibility, for example, auto-scaling. Everything is figured out exactly right. It manages all your workloads without much intervention. It can scale in, scale out, and with security. Everything looks pretty good compared to the old legacy way of working."
"The scalability seems quite good."
"Kubernetes is a leading container orchestration solution, known for its simplicity and ease of use. Being open-source, it benefits from large community support, including enterprise support. Many companies offer their own version of Kubernetes, making it widely adopted and supported in the industry."
"Auto-scaling and self-healing features are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the support for Docker containers."
"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 solution has some issues regarding availability during high loads. Worker nodes are sometimes unavailable, affecting the overall availability of the applications. This is a bug or underlying problem with the tool, and Azure and other providers are looking into improving this by releasing new versions of Kubernetes that fix some of the platform's issues."
"Kubernetes should improve its consistency across different types of deployments. My customers tell me that they get much better performance when Kubernetes is deployed on VM versus PaaS services from Azure."
"They need to focus on more security internally."
"Currently has a very minimal UI for certain things."
"The solution can be quite complex for many users."
"One feature I would actually like to see is the network monitoring part. When we talk about communities, it's mostly the computer side. But it does have some enhancements on the networking side which they have recently released. I would like to see more enhancement where we can monitor the networks of the Kubernetes cluster or the Kubernetes workloads."
"Security could be improved. It would be helpful if there were other security modules built into Kubernetes."
"Kubernetes is a complex solution. The product needs to be more manageable and user-friendly."
"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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