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."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"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 most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"Could be more intuitive."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"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."
"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, VMware Tanzu Build Service, Kubernetes, 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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