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 most valuable features of Docker are its security, detailed documentation, and ease of use, and the Docker Swarm is not as complex as Kubernetes."
"Feature-wise, Docker is very user-friendly...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"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."
"The initial setup was easy, and you are only required to run commands."
"I have seen end-to-end performance with Docker. It's a great tool, and it's the most popular container service in the market."
"It is neat and very flexible."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"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."
"I would like to see a more UI-based tool so that students can easily understand it rather than memorizing all of the Docker commands."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"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."
"If you install Docker on a host, it creates its own firewalls. It can become an issue. Usually, when you want to install Docker, you need to restart the firewall or restart the active tables on the machine, but this is not the case with Kubernetes. It uses the default set up by the next administrator, but with Docker, you have to restart the firewall and restart Docker before the firewall on the system will be okay. If you do not the rules will not be created."
"I think Docker can improve as it relates to overall stability."
"The command line interface could be more intuitive. I constantly struggle with it."
"I would like to see better management layers."
"Management can be improved with the necessary tools for orchestration."
"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, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu Build Service and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
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