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 solution is easy to install."
"Docker is very reliable. It's easy to scale, and it's very stable."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is the dedicated QA environment for connecting the team members. Additionally, there are many core features available and it is highly secure when we are imaging a client's server."
"The solution is easy to deploy for clients so it saves a lot of hassle."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives you the same environment as on a developer machine as well as a production machine relevant to specifications."
"We are able to stop our containers or stop the service with a single command."
"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."
"We are facing multiple issues with the solution's stability."
"I have encountered network issues while connecting with microservices. I want to optimize the application layers over the bucket. It should also have better documentation."
"The solution needs to be more scalable for local machines."
"I would like to see a single package image orchestration bundled together."
"The runtime and security could improve in Docker. Security is paramount in the cloud and important."
"It could be easier to create images and save them on reports. Just improved development workflow, just quicker, like some better user experience creating the images for the Docker containers."
"The solution could improve with a GUI instead of only a command line interface. Having to use the command line interface can be a hassle."
"Stability is an area with a shortcoming."
"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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