portainer

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    Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

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    Updated 7/1/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a lightweight platform to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI container environments via a smart GUI and API.
    • Simplifies container orchestration management by consolidating multiple environments into a single, easy-to-deploy container interface.
    • Use for managing containerized applications across Docker and Kubernetes clusters with a unified graphical interface.
    • Use for deploying and monitoring container resources like images, volumes, and networks in multi-orchestrator environments.
    • Use for integrating container management into CI/CD pipelines using Portainer's extensive API for automation.

    About portainer

    Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. It is designed to be as simple to deploy as it is to use. The application allows you to manage all your orchestrator resources (containers, images, volumes, networks and more) through a ‘smart’ GUI and/or an extensive API.

    Portainer consists of a single container that can run on any cluster. It can be deployed as a Linux container or a Windows native container.

    Portainer Business Edition builds on the open-source base and includes a range of advanced features and functions (like RBAC and Support) that are specific to the needs of business users.

    Latest Version

    Portainer CE is updated regularly. We aim to do an update release every couple of months.

    latest version

    Getting started

    Features & Functions

    View this table to see all of the Portainer CE functionality and compare to Portainer Business.

    Getting help

    Portainer CE is an open source project and is supported by the community. You can buy a supported version of Portainer at portainer.io

    Learn more about Portainer's community support channels here.

    You can join the Portainer Community by visiting https://www.portainer.io/join-our-community. This will give you advance notice of events, content and other related Portainer content.

    Reporting bugs and contributing

    • Want to report a bug or request a feature? Please open an issue.
    • Want to help us build portainer? Follow our contribution guidelines to build it locally and make a pull request.

    Security

    Work for us

    If you are a developer, and our code in this repo makes sense to you, we would love to hear from you. We are always on the hunt for awesome devs, either freelance or employed. Drop us a line to [email protected] with your details and/or visit our careers page.

    Privacy

    To make sure we focus our development effort in the right places we need to know which features get used most often. To give us this information we use Matomo Analytics, which is hosted in Germany and is fully GDPR compliant.

    When Portainer first starts, you are given the option to DISABLE analytics. If you don't choose to disable it, we collect anonymous usage as per our privacy policy. Please note, there is no personally identifiable information sent or stored at any time and we only use the data to help us improve Portainer.

    Limitations

    Portainer supports "Current - 2 docker versions only. Prior versions may operate, however these are not supported.

    Licensing

    Portainer is licensed under the zlib license. See LICENSE for reference.

    Portainer also contains code from open source projects. See ATTRIBUTIONS.md for a list.

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