Portainer enabled the Koton team to easily deploy and manage their first containerized apps and Suat expects that number to scale to 100s of apps over the course of the next few months. Koton’s apps are all based on a micro-service architecture and are critical to the running of the business.
Suat continued “With Portainer, deployment time has decreased significantly. It takes very little time for developers to publish the apps into our production environment using the GUI. We plan to move to an automated GitOps-based deployment model in due course, which is another reason for selecting Portainer as it has a GitOps engine already integrated into the platform”.
Suat was able to set up the platform himself using Portainer’s extensive documentation and has found Portainer to be comprehensive, easy to use and highly fault tolerant.
In fact the team could not believe how easy it was to use Kubernetes.
Suat asked "When should we decide to use these other platforms such as OpenShift. For now, I can see I can do nearly everything here, what other requirements would force us to use something else?" Suat's team went on to comment, "we are not used to managing these things so easily. Sometimes we wonder if there's something else because it is so easy." CEO Neil Cresswell replied, "try it without Portainer, and you will see it's not so easy, the most difficult part - the set up and implementation - you are already passed that point now."
Koton will continue to work on the platform to make it more efficient. They will continue to add on more apps in the future and also start to use tools such as Prometheus and Grafana for improved analytics.
