Security News > 2024 > July > Portainer: Open-source Docker and Kubernetes management

Portainer Community Edition is an open-source, lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications.

"I created Portainer, initially for my own needs. Back in 2016 I was operating a Public Cloud provider in Asia, and wanted to offer a Container as a Service solution to market. At the time, that meant Docker. There were no Cloud Provider management UI's for Docker then, so I created Portainer to act as such. In a way, Portainer enabled a domestic market version of AWS ECS before ECS was popular. However, Portainer quickly took on a life of its own. I open-sourced the UI, which was"discovered" and blogged about, and it took off.

The main objective for Portainer now is to enable organizations to offer CaaS platforms internally on any container runtime or orchestrator of their choice.

If a business wants to run container-based apps in the easiest way possible, Portainer is the ideal tool.

Portainer provides the necessary controls and protections to ensure that apps run securely on well-configured platforms.

Future plans and download. "We are looking to expand further what Portainer does, going deeper into observability, supporting greater scale of deployments, and furthering our work on simplifying Kubernetes operations. We do want to make the underlying technology as irrelevant as we can. We look at AWS ECS as our"gold standard" regarding its power and ease of use, and that is what we want to offer for any deployment, anywhere," Cresswell added.

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