Do you manage containers in your daily workflow? Then you might want to check out Portainer.io. We here at Lagoon use the free and open-source community edition of Portainer. It’s a container management tool, and you install it into the cluster you want to manage - or locally into Docker.
Here’s what the dashboard looks like on my local machine:
You can see in the menu on the left that there are a lot of options for viewing what’s going on in your containers.
And here’s the view of my containers:
Portainer is especially useful for folks who don’t have an in-depth knowledge of container management or Kubernetes, but still need to work with containers.
Vincenzo, one of our system engineers, had this to say:
“It's the only UI for an easy management of Docker and Docker swarm. Plus it gives you some metrics and insights out-of-the-box without fighting with Prometheus+Grafana.”
Toby, our Product Lead, first introduced us to Portainer a few years ago, and still uses it every day:
"For someone who works regularly testing releases, updates and changes across a number of Docker Compose stacks (usually more than 6, don't ask!), Portainer is invaluable in keeping tabs on it all."
If you don't believe him, here's his current stacks...
As an open source project ourselves, it's really exciting to be able to love another great open source tool (especially one from NZ!)
Head over to https://www.portainer.io/products to find out more, or join their team in one of their chat/social channels.
Top comments (2)
Thanks for this, its awesome. Question tho, how come you guys are staying on Portainer 1.24.x rather than upgrading to Portainer CE 2.x? You need to switch from image portainer/portainer to portainer/portainer-ce to get all the new goodness..
Ha, thanks for noticing! We're all up to date now, and yes - the new goodness is indeed, good - I'm trialling it on my local k8s cluster as I type!
Keep up the great work team!