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Portainer CE

Portainer CE, the community edition of Portainer, is a lightweight web user interface for managing Docker hosts and Docker Swarm clusters.

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Portainer CE, the community edition of Portainer, is a lightweight web user interface for managing Docker hosts and Docker Swarm clusters. It gives self-hosters a dashboard for creating, monitoring, updating, and removing containers, images, volumes, networks, and other Docker resources. It is useful when you want visual management of one or more Docker environments with less command-line work.

Platform availability

Available on 3 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

24/100 Low

Maintained
0GitHub repository no longer exists
Popular
No data
Easy to install
302 install platforms, Docker image
Light to run
801 GB minimum RAM, runs on ARM

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 17 days ago

No GitHub repository data collected yet.

Checked 17 days ago - source: GitHub (BigBearTechWorld/portainer)

Resources & Compatibility

Minimum requirements: 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk. ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

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  • stackgres-operator

Checked 3 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Will Community Edition be supported in Portainer 3?

No, the article states Portainer 3 is not for Community Edition users. It says the team is focusing on Kubernetes and enterprise-grade features.

Does Portainer's support page cover Community Edition?

The support page only asks Professional, Scale, or Enterprise customers to submit the support form. It does not mention Community Edition coverage.

Can existing Docker and Docker Swarm hosts be added to Portainer?

Portainer's site says existing Docker and Swarm hosts join the same platform.

Does Portainer provide an intuitive interface and defaults for setup?

Portainer is described as having an intuitive GUI and a set of sane defaults that help users get up and running quickly.

Answers sourced from portainer.io, www.portainer.io, www.reddit.com, www.smart-stacking.com

Community

Collected 11 days ago - public community threads