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Infrastructure/Container Management

Portainer

Web UI for managing Docker and Kubernetes containers, images, volumes, and stacks without touching the CLI.

86
Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.
88
Community
100
Development
100
Maintenance
40
Risk
38,000 GitHub stars Last commit: 2 days ago Last release: 7 days ago Open issues: 741 License: Zlib

Hardware

RAM minimum128 MB
RAM recommended512 MB
CPU idlenear 0%
CPU recommended1 vCPU
ARM supportFull

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes
OIDC support✗ No
LDAP support✓ Yes
Multi-user✓ Yes
Mobile appNone

Operations

MaturityStable
Maintenance burdenLow
Setup difficultyEasy
Backup methodBackup the portainer_data volume (Business Edition adds a native scheduled backup)

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyEasy

Replaces

Docker CLI/DesktopRancher (lightweight use cases)

Relationships

Install via

BinaryDocker ComposeKubernetes

Works well with

AuthentikTraefik

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

Community Edition covers everything a homelab needs — RBAC and LDAP are free. OIDC/SSO got moved behind the Business Edition license at some point, so if OIDC-everywhere is a hard requirement, front it with Authelia/Authentik forward-auth instead of waiting on native support.