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Portainer delivers enterprise-grade container management, simplified and engineered for everyone. From multi‑cluster agility to remote‑site efficiency, it empowers IT and OT teams with visibility, control, and ROI, all without complexity or vendor lock‑in.

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everything you need. one platform. 
half the cost.*

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*At least 50% cheaper than competitors.

Powering Global Enterprises and Many Thousands Of Deployments

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Whatever you run, wherever you run it.

Cloud, on-prem, edge. Wherever you run things, Portainer fits in. Docker, Kubernetes, mixed environments, no problem. You don’t need to change your setup. You don’t need to follow our rules. Just plug it in and start managing.
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proven at scale

Portainer is the most popular container management platform in the world.

1m+

users

30k

github stars

4.1b

docker hub downloads
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Whatever you run, wherever you run it.

Cloud, on-prem, edge. Wherever you run things, Portainer fits in. Docker, Kubernetes, mixed environments, no problem. You don’t need to change your setup. You don’t need to follow our rules. Just plug it in and start managing.
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Why Portainer

Kubernetes without the complexity

Build faster,
not from scratch

Yes, you can build your own platform. But the cost is complexity, risk, and months of toil. Portainer gives you a ready-to-use, integrated solution your team can operate, without the endless decisions or YAML deep-dives.

2 Hrs
From zero to production

Enterprise results,
without enterprise bloat

Other platforms lock you into their ecosystem... and price tag.
Portainer delivers the same outcomes for half the cost, without dictating your tools, cloud, or Kubernetes flavor.
No lock-in. Just freedom.

50%
Cheaper on average

Industrial-grade
simplicity

Modernizing at the edge shouldn’t require a team of experts.
Portainer makes container management safe, fast, and intuitive, even for non-specialists.
No consultants. No delays. Just results.

125K
Edge Devices

Shopfloor Integration Management for VW

Volkswagen partnered with Portainer to help securely manage their apps on their Shopfloor Integration Management (SIM) infrastructure.

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Helping the University of Utah Streamline Infrastructure Across 35+ Labs

"Portainer is responsible for dropping my workload between 15 and 20% because I’m not going out and touching individual servers.”

Elliot Francis, Principal Software Engineer
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Enabling High Availability & Automation for Public-Facing Infrastructure

"I am able to quickly look at what’s going on, get a holistic view of everything. Very quickly I look at the stack and services – instead of digging up docker commands, it’s all automated."

Joshua O'Brien, Systems Engineer
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Proctor & Gamble

P&G partners with Portainer to containerize their MES software

“It has taken time and some effort, but immediately the 20 users are already seeing major productivity gains."

Adefemi Ayaji, Application Platform Owner, Global
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Transforming Legacy Infrastructure into Modern, Containerized Apps

"Within a week of having Portainer, we’ve been able to take deployment workflows from 2 hours to fully deploy, to 5 minutes."

Jim Bruce, Director of Technology
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Streamlining AI Development & Deployment at Scale with Portainer

"Per day, I spent an hour or two easily on deployments and now with Portainer and full use, that'll probably go down to at most 5-10 minutes."

Zoe Matre, DevOps Manager
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On-Prem Kubernetes Made Easy for Retail IT Teams

"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”.

Suat Urgurlu, Associate Director, Technology Solutions & IT Security
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Modernizing Legacy Infrastructure: KIT’s Journey to Container‑Powered Research

“In the past, we had to go to Africa and install research tools on a server there and in most of the cases that never really worked because then something crashed and the people were gone. With Portainer, we just take a container and put it somewhere else.”

Christof Lorenz, Scientific Data Manager
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Accelerating container adoption by 2 years at Inter-State Studio and Publishing

"We shaved a good two years off the adoption of containerization because we had Portainer."

Jason Plumhoff, Lead Developer and Software Architect
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Empowering Customers with Self‑Service Container Management

“It’s actually quite easy. We never did it because we thought it would require a lot of Kubernetes knowledge, but it doesn’t.”

Remy Simons
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