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."Once you get it configured properly, it's a stable solution."
"The solution has many valuable features but the most impressive is the ability to scale an application and continuously monitor if all the components of the application are functioning correctly."
"The most important feature is container orchestration."
"It is a stable and scalable product."
"The solution is easy to use."
"If you're switching from VMs to Kubernetes, you will see a return because you can pack more into the Kubernetes architecture using containers rather than VMs. You'll see some more savings on your infrastructure, as well."
"If you don't have resources, you can certainly add another worker node and expand the cluster."
"The autoscaling feature is the most valuable. Kubernetes itself is an orchestration tool. It automatically detects the load, and it automatically spins up the new Pod in the form of a new microservice deployment."
"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 Kubernetes dashboard can be improved. It is currently a mess. We were using Rancher earlier, and everyone was happy with the dashboard. Right now, we are using Kubernetes, and it's not working with Microsoft workstations. We still have problems with the dashboard. It's terrible."
"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."
"The price is something they need to improve."
"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."
"Kubernetes is a bit complex, and there's a steep learning curve. At the same time, I cannot imagine how it could be easier. You need many add-ons to it, and the commercial releases of Kubernetes should address that."
"The management needs to be improved."
"The solution does not work with third-party tools, or alternative cloud providers, which limits the extent that we can utilize it to."
"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, Google Kubernetes Engine, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Cisco Container Platform, whereas Portainer is most compared with Rancher Labs, OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Build Service, HashiCorp Nomad and VMware Tanzu Mission Control.
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