Portainer - Container Management Made Easy

[@ravikumarhr4524]

Thanks for the video, you are brutally honest and i love that..

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I appreciate that!

[@galonge]

Love the objective review on this one Victor!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

My goal is to always tell exactly what I think, no matter whether that will hurt someone's feelings.

[@galonge]

@@DevOpsToolkit Great! that's why I subscribed to this channel and love most of your videos. Thanks

[@matlukaz]

In the past we sometimes used Portainer to monitor or run containers on a development server with Docker, but now it really looks useless. What do you think of Kubeapps or maybe you can suggest some other easy UI management of apps in K8s ? (also for people that are not experts in Kubernetes) IMHO Kubeapps might simplify Kubernetes as it allows to run, reconfigure, terminate and to a small extent monitor apps in Kubernetes without knowing a lot of technical details - quite useful in test/development environments.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I haven't used Kubeapps. Adding it to my TODO list. In the meantime, I think I found a great solution, but I need a bit more time working with it before saying what it is.

[@florianflowfabworx4460]

​@@DevOpsToolkit Hi Viktor - 3 months later now - just to pick up this loose end of the rope: can you say more about this solution now or even do have a video about it showing us how it works and why you like (or dislike) it? ... if I want to offer my remote Scrum app "as a Service", I need to have set it up in a scalable solution or I will have to drive crazy as soon as pesky customers wanna try out this software - in short: *You do help me a lot with your videos here - thank you!* PS: I am (still) a one-man show...

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Just published a video about Kubeapps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/envCnGicnbR3n5I

[@rodrigito78]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/joe0lKaaa7tnm8k

[@nitinkansal]

Please add few videos on rancher

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Great suggestion. Adding it to my TODO list...

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Just released a video about Rancher: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnyZfJV3obaFf8k

[@jacksonchristopher69]

old tool. been around for a while, looked at it back in 2016. Let's get a Viktor Stack video, your favorite tools, and workflow method for production today.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Great suggestion! I created a post (kzbin.info/door/fz8x0lVzJpb_dgWm9kPVrwcommunity?lb=Ugz_gvrClF03gGUzLW94AaABCQ) with the first set of tools/processes I might talk about. Please let me know what I might be missing.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Done and published at kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKSQo6RtiNuDpqc

[@jacksonchristopher69]

@@DevOpsToolkit amazing! thanks again I will comment on the main video as well. My latest thing to look into is Kubecost...it hooks into billing api for a terminal view of all of your kubernetes billing.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

KubeCost is great :)

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Just published a video about KubeCost: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faGmmaaVacqrrrM

[@Kinagi]

Thank you for this - saved me the trouble of setting up a POC. Definitely not helpful for Infra As Code setups & it just seems so "inefficient" to manage large amounts of resources...

[@rodrigito78]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/joe0lKaaa7tnm8k

[@erickbrenes7562]

In 20 minutes or less, this time for real

[@rodrigito78]

Hey Viktor - I have to respectfully disagree, a more in-depth analysis is needed. I have been using Portainer for a few months now and so far it has proven to be quite useful in many areas. One particular area is security, where Portainer acts as a gatekeeper for inbound access to one of several k8s clusters.. and another area is RBAC backed by a variety of auth engines (AD, LDAP, etc..) , all of it takes place in a centralized location vs hopping from cluster to cluster. I have found Portainer to be quite beneficial.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

It's been almost a year since I used it and reviewed it and a lot must have changed since then. Let me add it to my TODO list and give it another try...

[@rodrigito78]

Here is a more ind-dept video that actually covers what Portainer can actually do. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joe0lKaaa7tnm8k

[@aldyj4733]

I've stopped watching when you start chanting "happy place"... Thanks for saving my time!

[@GoldenBear2468]

It looks like Rancher lite.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I don't think so. Rancher is something (re)designed for k8s with quite a few helpful things (e.g., create a cluster, good dashboard, etc.). Portainer, on the other hand, does not bring anything to the table. Any k8s dashboard is a better way to visualize k8s clusters. It feels like a solution for Docker that was made (not redesigned) to somehow works with k8s. We desperately need a simplification layer on top of k8s. I just do not think that Portainer is the one. It tries to make k8s the same as Docker. If I would want that, I would use Docker (with or without Swarm). The winning combination would be a solution that allows people to create some form of templates that would enable others to do their job without being "experts" in k8s. Or it could be a new CRD like, for example, Knative that allows simple definitions while still doing what needs to be done in the background. I'm exploring a few other solutions. I'll find something worth using. I promise.

[@GoldenBear2468]

@@DevOpsToolkit I agree, that is why I said "lite"

[@localho]

ghetto k8s

[@jirityr]

Portainer was cool at the time when Docker Swarm was cool. Nowadays it's completely useless project and you just wasted your time. I wish there is no more "waste of time" videos on this channel ;o) Make videos about OpenShift!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I haven't used it back when Docker was cool. Still, I came to the same conclusion without even knowing it's history. It's easy to deduce that it is Docker-something but changed to run in k8s. The main reason I made the video is because it was requested in a couple of comments. I promise that was the last one about "small" projects that are not worth using. I might still do that with some of the bigger ones, mostly as a way to help people avoid crap that is commonly used by many. Adding OpenShift to the TODO list...

[@amabamo5769]

@@DevOpsToolkit There's a lot to learn from the past and portainer can be a good start to understand some general principles of docker, containers, before diving into kubernetes in my opinion.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I agree, in theory. In practice, at least among the teams I worked with, people can easily get stuck into "intermediary" solution. As long as using it is limited to "learning" and does not stick, you are absolutely right. It can be a good tool for that.