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."We find the smooth, instant fail-safes in this solution to be very useful, as this allows for easy revival of dying quads or failing applications."
"Provision of a managed platform as a service."
"I like Kubernetes' scalability, built-in redundancy, and ease of deployment."
"Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management."
"Kubernetes is scalable and the elasticity is sustainable."
"The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is automation. It is the best tool for automation."
"The self-serving feature allows our developers to grab a container and complete testing."
"All the current features are quite harmonic."
"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 setup process could be improved as it's quite complex, especially for newbies."
"The network policies and RBAC management across multi-clusters could be improved. This is an issue we're trying to solve in the market."
"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."
"Security could be improved. It would be helpful if there were other security modules built into Kubernetes."
"The solution could be more stable."
"The solution can be quite complex for many users."
"The management needs to be improved."
"This product should have a more advanced built-in scheduler that uses real application metrics in the scheduling strategy."
"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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