Portainer
Infrastructure
container management ui
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
10 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, attractive UI and design
From 3 comments
It looks absolutely amazing! Is it compatible with swarm mode? It would be awesome if it was a bit more explicit that it was running on a swarm/which node...
jstoja on HNI like the UI. Great work. Kudos!
otto_ortega on HNLove the art style, love the site style, maybe useful as a desktop app for local development too perhaps?
robinduckett on HN
Objections
No authentication or access control yet
From 2 comments
Saw it, loved it, installed in only 30 seconds, now using it in production. There are definitely issues to be resolved but I believe most of them are simple enough for single…
diegoperini on HNVery Cool! 1. Is there some auth mechanism like Shipyard where I can make new users and set their access scopes? 2. Can you please mention the source code on your page? It is…
indexerror on HN
Security risk since it can effectively root connected machines
From 1 comment
So, here's a concern for you: this provides for a severe security hole, since it has the ability to effectively run as root on any machine its connected to (a'la privileged mode,…
falcolas on HN
No Mac or OSX support yet
From 2 comments
Will there be a OSX (MacOS) version? It's quite rare for software to have Windows and Linux support, but no OSX support.
edwinjm on HNAny plans to release a Mac version?
synacksa on HN
Requests
Role-based access control
From 1 comment
Thanks ! Role based access control is our next big feature on the roadmap, we're working on it :) And yes, there is a link to the source code on the homepage.
deviantony on HN
Mac support
From 1 comment
This is awesome ! Indeed we don't have any Mac and so we did not have the possibility to try it. We'll ask a few Mac users to give it a go before claiming Mac support. Thanks a…
deviantony on HN
Docker-compose support
From 1 comment
Was able to set it up in under 30 seconds - kudos to you! Really looking forward to the docker-compose support, though. I like the combination of docker-compose + traefik +…
MrGilbert on HN
API for integrating custom templates and automation
From 2 comments
Nice UI. But my mainproblem is not solved with an UI. I did not understand who uses only default containers without configuration or only the small possible container…
progx on HNThe ENV vars for a container are part of the standard docker system, they work as expected and are supported by many UIs. I mean how dynamic data come into the Container from the…
progx on HN
Questions
Is it compatible with Swarm mode?
From 1 comment
It looks absolutely amazing! Is it compatible with swarm mode? It would be awesome if it was a bit more explicit that it was running on a swarm/which node...
jstoja on HN
Is it open source and what is the business model?
From 1 comment
Is this commercial? Open source? I managed to find the github repository[1]. While it is linked to on the homepage, it isn't all that discoverable. From there, it looks like this…
mbreese on HN
Does it support log retention?
From 1 comment
I see real time stats, do you have support for log retention? Say I don't wanna ship logs elsewhere, can I define a retention period and check out logs locally? ty
atmosx on HN
Alternatives named
Shipyard
From 1 comment
A similar project[1] which is also open source[2] and looks a lot similar. [1] https://shipyard-project.com/ [2] https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard
ysh7 on HN
DockerUI
From 1 comment
We currently use DockerUI on our instances. What would be the compelling reason to switch to Portainer?
unlogic on HN
Rancher
From 2 comments
It's like Rancher but for Docker Swarm (or just a host with Docker). I really like it! We run our own container registry for our engineering group based on Artifactory. Could…
stuff4ben on HNI agree. Rancher has too many balls in the air. They are trying to support Cattle, Swarm, Mesos, Kubernetes... As a result they aren't terribly good at anything (The UI is…
bacheson1293 on HN
Cockpit
From 1 comment
Cockpit [1] too, although that might be a bit more focused on single machine management than on clusters (don't use any of those - so I can't tell for sure) [1]…
Matthias247 on HN