We performed a comparison between Portainer and Rancher Labs 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."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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"Portainer needs to be more intuitive."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
Portainer is ranked 13th in Container Management with 1 review while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews. Portainer is rated 8.0, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Portainer writes "A GUI solution that helps to administer a docker using a browser". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Portainer is most compared with HashiCorp Nomad, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu Build Service, OpenShift Container Platform and VMware Tanzu Mission Control, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Mirantis Container Runtime.
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