We performed a comparison between Docker 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."There are ways of using Docker where you have absolutely no dependencies on the environment that you work in. This allows us to deploy Docker anywhere anytime and this has been most valuable."
"Containerization is the most valuable feature. I can communicate to the Docker containers using other containers."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The most valuable features of Docker are its security, detailed documentation, and ease of use, and the Docker Swarm is not as complex as Kubernetes."
"Docker allows you to run multiple virtual machines independently."
"The lift and shift creates a lightweight image."
"Docker is perfect for what I do...The solution is scalable."
"Docker's containerization property is its main selling point."
"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."
"I want to see if new architectures have been incorporated in Docker or if we have to wait for another release."
"There may not be much room for improvement with Docker as it has greatly evolved. However, one area that could be improved upon is the documentation on their website which was once easy to follow but has become quite terrible with numerous versions being released. As an example, the installation process for Docker now requires more than just a one-line command, causing inconvenience. Additionally, based on my experience as a college instructor, teaching students to install Docker was a difficult task due to the lack of straightforward and easy-to-follow documentation. Docker should focus on improving their documentation to make it more user-friendly for all."
"There are elements of stability that are problematic. One of the most recent upgrades created a major incident on our cloud, whereby the containers were not restarting automatically."
"There is always room for improvement. I often refer to forums such as StackOverflow to learn from other developers' experiences and the challenges they have faced while using Docker."
"We'd like knowledge transfer to be easier."
"The solution is not easy to manage and it is one of the reasons why people introduce orchestration tools to manage it."
"Owing to a few shortcomings in its stability, I would say that its stability can be improved."
"If you install Docker on a host, it creates its own firewalls. It can become an issue. Usually, when you want to install Docker, you need to restart the firewall or restart the active tables on the machine, but this is not the case with Kubernetes. It uses the default set up by the next administrator, but with Docker, you have to restart the firewall and restart Docker before the firewall on the system will be okay. If you do not the rules will not be created."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
Docker is ranked 7th in Container Management with 40 reviews while Portainer is ranked 13th in Container Management with 1 review. Docker is rated 8.6, while Portainer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Portainer writes "A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser". Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), whereas Portainer is most compared with Rancher Labs, HashiCorp Nomad, VMware Tanzu Build Service, Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform.
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