Portainer

Infrastructure

container management ui

SHOW HN2016

146points
50comments
#231of 2,264 in 2016
Top 11%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

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

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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 HN
    • I like the UI. Great work. Kudos!
      otto_ortega on HN
    • Love 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 HN
    • Very 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 HN
    • Any 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 HN
    • The 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 HN
    • I 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

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