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."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."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a container orchestrator. It has a huge user base and it is easily incorporated into all of the public clouds."
"The best feature is autoscaling. It's effortless to use for scaling deployment parts, CI/CD, etc."
"This product has a rich toolset from the community including CNI plug-ins, Helm packages, operators, dashboards, various integrations, etc."
"Kubernetes provides scalable clustering for containers and other means of deployment."
"The most valuable feature of the platform is the ability to load some of the containers that were previously managed by humans."
"There's a lot of community support if you need to get help."
"The ease of use if the solution is a very valuable aspect for us."
"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."
"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."
"I'm expecting more improvement on the UI development side, which can be reflected in each object that is part of Kubernetes, like the Pod, deployment set, ReplicaSet, ConfigMap, Secrets, and PersistentVolume."
"They should update Kubernetes more regularly."
"The setup process could be improved as it's quite complex, especially for newbies."
"The platform could be more convenient to use."
"The plugins could be better. That is one pain point we had, and we had to get in with many other open standards, like Calico networking and more."
"The management needs to be improved."
"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 67 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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