Portainer
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
Nov 9, 2025first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I've been using portainer for years, it's decent.”
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“I tried Portainer, btop, Uptime Kuma — all great tools”
“Maintenance is managable thanks to docker and portainer stacks”
“Been fortunate enough to get a sponsorship from the Portainer folks”
Caveats and dissent
“even with lowered MTU I still get odd networking related issues”
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All comments 13
“I like it.”
“scoped Proxmox tokens and Portainer”
“moved it a couple of days ago to a portainer VM on proxmox with 6GB ram”
“I've been using portainer for years, it's decent.”
“I tried Portainer, btop, Uptime Kuma — all great tools”
“where I’ve used both Cockpit and Portainer, but generally tend to stick with the CLI”
“even with lowered MTU I still get odd networking related issues”
“https://portainer.myhome.top”
“Maintenance is managable thanks to docker and portainer stacks”
“DStack is not a replacement for tools like Portainer or Komodo.”
“Been fortunate enough to get a sponsorship from the Portainer folks”
“I used portainer since I like having the GUI”
“Also got a sponsorship from the portainer folks”