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 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."
"Containerization is the most valuable feature. I can communicate to the Docker containers using other containers."
"The most valuable feature is that it is cost-saving."
"Docker allows you to run multiple virtual machines independently."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the Dockerfile, which makes the life of developers easy. Developers get a real understanding of container creation."
"The initial setup was easy, and you are only required to run commands."
"It is neat and very flexible."
"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 documentation could be improved."
"The product does not have an extensive documentation. The tool does not have good scenarios. We have to go through the GitHub repository and investigate similar scenarios. Also, if you are copying multiple things, then you can jeopardize the copy number. The copying aspect also lacks a UI part. We also need to limit the memory."
"Deployment could be quicker."
"The solution is not easy to manage and it is one of the reasons why people introduce orchestration tools to manage it."
"We are facing multiple issues with the solution's stability."
"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 solution’s documentation could improve a bit."
"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, VMware Tanzu Build Service, Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform.
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