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As Portainer, the open source project and product has grown and evolved, we are often asked what is it Portainer does, and what is our value proposition.
For us this is quite a simple question, and there is an equally simple answer;
Portainer is a software platform designed for IT Operations (Platform/Infrastructure Managers) to create a "Container as a Service" offering for their internal users. Portainer acts as a central control-pane, aggregating and unifying the services and capabilities of any number of backend container environments (Docker, Kubernetes, ACI), applying centralised identity and access management, policies, sec
