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."There's a lot of community support if you need to get help."
"The cluster is very stable with outward scalability and good performance."
"It's really scalable and efficient for resource management."
"Auto-scaling and self-healing features are very good."
"This product has a rich toolset from the community including CNI plug-ins, Helm packages, operators, dashboards, various integrations, etc."
"Kubernetes' most valuable features include scalability and deployment."
"The auto-repair function in Kubernetes is perfect. When something breaks, the auto-repair function automatically repairs it. If you are running the content in Kubernetes, you have a good set up. You do not need to do anything for the management of this. So, the automation of Kubernetes is number one."
"The most valuable feature is the support for Docker containers."
"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."
"It would be helpful if the UI were more graphical."
"Kubernetes could adopt UI-based approach. A UI-based approach would be really useful in the CI/CD pipeline. They should make everything a little bit more user-friendly. For example, when I'm deploying, it would be nice to load my code and be able to see which components need to be connected."
"Kubernetes can improve pod escalation."
"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."
"It would be great if Kubernetes could handle a level of data backup."
"Having a thread dump and memory dump, and seeing how many objects were created would be useful."
"There is a feature called Terraform and, based on the reviews I have read, it could be improved."
"The pricing could be improved. It would be ideal if it was a bit less."
"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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