Get Operational with Kubernetes Faster

Portainer is a full-stack Kubernetes management platform that helps reduce the operational complexity of container orchestration. With an intuitive UI and robust features, Portainer allows you to provision, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters - quickly and reliably - while retaining the control and governance your organization needs.

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Portainer Kubernetes GUI

Built for DevOps Teams. Loved by Engineers.

Whether you’re running a small dev cluster or overseeing large-scale production workloads, Portainer is designed for simplicity and power. Get direct insights into your clusters and workloads, configure policies, and securely administer resources, all through a single pane of glass.

Easy Cluster Provisioning: Powered by Sidero Omni and Talos Kubernetes, you can set up enterprise-ready, self-hosted Kubernetes clusters in just a few steps, enabling your teams to get started faster. Even better, you can lifecycle the cluster and nodes directly from within Portainer.
Streamlined Day-Two Operations: Monitor, maintain, and update your clusters with minimal friction, so you can focus on delivering value instead of wrestling with infrastructure.
Enhanced Visibility: View resource usage and application performance at a glance, helping teams identify issues and optimize cost.

Developer-Friendly: Let your teams focus on building great applications rather than battling YAML and complex tooling.
One Platform for All: A single solution to handle everything from initial cluster creation to day-two operations.

Reduced TCO: Minimize the number of tools and integrations required, cutting both operational overhead and licensing costs.
Community & Enterprise-Ready: Choose between our open-source Community Edition or Portainer Business for advanced features, professional support, and enterprise-grade capabilities.

What do our customers say?

“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”. Read more.

Suat UgurluAssociate Director, Technology Solutions and IT Security

“Giving customers the ability to login and check and reboot containers themselves via Portainer was a huge win for us. We love helping our customers and we want to spend time working with them on other more complex tasks that provide them more value, rather than jobs like rebooting containers”. Read more.

Remy SimonsHosting Team Lead

Frequently asked questions

Answers to common questions we get about Kubernetes and Portainer.

Which Kubernetes distros does Portainer work with?

Portainer has been used successfully with MicroK8s, K3s, K8s Native, OpenShift, AKS, EKS, DOKS, and more, either self-hosted or managed.

Does Portainer work with Rancher or OpenShift?

Yes Portainer can work alongside both Rancher and OpenShift, and can be used to manage clusters set up with RKE and OpenShift.

How many clusters can I manage with Portainer? As many as you need. We've tested with up to 15,000 distinct environments managed by one Portainer instance, and we're constantly working on improving the scalability of Portainer.

Can I use load-balancers/ingress and control their usage? You can enable/disable the use of load-balancer and ingress in Portainer, you may even selectively enable which ingress controller users are able to consume.

Is access control applied to the cluster using Kubernetes RBAC? Access control rules set in Portainer is applied to the Kubernetes Cluster using its native RBAC policies. This enables us to provide downloadable kubeconfig file that can be used with your favourite tool.

Can I use my Kubernetes at the Edge with Portainer? Yes, you simply have to deploy an edge agent and enable communication to the main Portainer instance.

Can I create / Scale Clusters from Portainer? Portainer offers KaaS capabilities where you can spin up or scale a cluster in your Public Cloud instance. We currently support AKS, EKS, GKE, Digital Ocean, Linode and Civo, more to be added along with an on-prem option.

Accelerate Your Cloud-Native Journey

Portainer delivers the simplicity, security, and power that modern DevOps teams demand. If you’re ready to reduce operational burdens and unleash the full potential of Kubernetes, Portainer has you covered—from cluster creation to rolling updates.

Try Portainer today to see how a full-stack Kubernetes management platform can transform your containerized environment and help you achieve more—faster.

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