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We performed a comparison between Kubernetes and Portainer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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 valuable feature of Kubernetes is the integration with other solutions, such as Formative and Grafana.""Kubernetes' integration with AWS Lambda is great. I barely had to write any code to connect from EKS to Lambda, so Kubernetes is programmer friendly.""The scanning and support network.""The implementation, and the way that they can, with a few clicks, load hundreds of machines without any trouble is very useful.""Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management.""The cluster is very stable with outward scalability and good performance.""All the current features are quite harmonic."

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"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."

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Cons
"The front end is very rudimentary.""Management features could be simplified.""There is a feature called Terraform and, based on the reviews I have read, it could be improved.""It increases developers' overhead.""This product should have a more advanced built-in scheduler that uses real application metrics in the scheduling strategy.""Kubernetes is incredibly complicated, so one area of improvement is the ease of administration. I would like a user interface that you can run to help you debug and diagnose problems and suggest how to configure things.""Kubernetes can improve pod escalation.""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."

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"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The management layer is free, which is perfect. You don't need to pay money for the management layer, but in AWS develop service, you need to pay. I think it is €75 per month for the management layer. It is free here, so you can have as many Kubernetes clusters as you need. You are paying just for the workload, that is, for the machine, CPU, memory, and everything."
  • "Kubernetes is open-source."
  • "The solution is affordable."
  • "Kubernetes is open source. But we have to manage Kubernetes as a team, and the overhead is a bit high. Compared with the platforms like Cloud Foundry, which has a much less operational overhead. Kubernetes, I have to manage the code, and I have to hire the developers. If someone has a product, a developer should know exactly what he's writing or high availability, and all those things may differ the costs."
  • "There are no licensing fees."
  • "There is no licensing fee."
  • "In addition to Kubernetes, you have to pay for support."
  • "The solution requires a license to use it."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Kubernetes have been autoscaling and its resilience mechanisms.
    Top Answer:Microsoft provides reasonable costs for Kubernetes.
    Top Answer:The platform could be more convenient to use. While the Kubernetes CLI is powerful, the interface needs to be improved. The users often navigate between various third-party IDEs. Thus, a more… more »
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:Portainer needs to be more intuitive.
    Top Answer:The tool is a GUI that helps to administer a docker using a browser.
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    Also Known As
    K8
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    Overview

    Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
    It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

    Deploy, configure, troubleshoot and secure containers in minutes on Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm and Nomad in any data center, cloud, network edge or IIOT device.

    Sample Customers
    China unicom, NetEase Cloud, Nav, AppDirect
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company28%
    Retailer13%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    University7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise56%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise54%
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    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, VMware Tanzu Build Service, OpenShift Container Platform, HashiCorp Nomad and VMware Tanzu Mission Control.

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