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."The capability of the solution to convert an application into a Docker image is a vital functionality"
"Docker's containerization property is its main selling point."
"When used in conjunction with Kubernetes, it is seamless because it integrates very well."
"The solution's most valuable feature is having containers independent of the operating system or environment."
"I think the best feature is to replicate anything in our local machine using a simple command."
"We are able to stop our containers or stop the service with a single command."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is that it revolutionized virtualization by providing a new approach with containers that completely nullified the time it used to take to deploy applications on virtual servers, resulting in deployment times that can be as quick as milliseconds, unless it is a heavy application, such as Java. Additionally, resource utilization has greatly improved with Docker, allowing for more resources to be allocated to other tasks. These are a few key features that make Docker a preferred choice."
"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 volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"We are facing multiple issues with the solution's stability."
"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."
"I would like to see a single package image orchestration bundled together."
"The security layer is very vulnerable, although they are working to improve the system hardening and email hardening."
"The solution is not easy to manage and it is one of the reasons why people introduce orchestration tools to manage it."
"Docker could improve by providing the ability to use the GPU for parallel processing. If there was the capability of using the GPU it would improve the machine learning that I want to use."
"Docker needs to improve its pricing."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
Docker is ranked 7th in Container Management with 47 reviews while Portainer is ranked 14th 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 Mission Control, VMware Tanzu Build Service and Kubernetes.
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