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Portainer vs Spread: What are the differences?

Portainer: Simple management UI for Docker. Portainer is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments Portainer is available on Windows, Linux and Mac. It has never been so easy to manage Docker !; Spread: *CLI to deploy Docker to Kubernetes in one command *. Redspread is a command line tool that builds and deploys a Docker project to a Kubernetes cluster in one command.

Portainer and Spread can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.

Spread is an open source tool with 1.86K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spread's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Portainer
Pros of Spread
  • 35
    Simple
  • 26
    Great UI
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    Friendly
  • 12
    Easy to setup, gives a practical interface for Docker
  • 11
    Because it just works, super simple yet powerful
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    Fully featured
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    A must for Docker DevOps
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    Free and opensource
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    API
  • 5
    It's simple, fast and the support is great
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    Template Support
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    What is Portainer?

    It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

    What is Spread?

    Redspread is a command line tool that builds and deploys a Docker project to a Kubernetes cluster in one command.

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    What are some alternatives to Portainer and Spread?
    Kubernetes
    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
    Mesosphere
    Mesosphere offers a layer of software that organizes your machines, VMs, and cloud instances and lets applications draw from a single pool of intelligently- and dynamically-allocated resources, increasing efficiency and reducing operational complexity.
    Kitematic
    Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X
    Cockpit
    An API-driven CMS without forcing you to make compromises in how you implement your site. The CMS for developers. Manage content like collections, regions, forms and galleries which you can reuse anywhere on your website.
    Docker Compose
    With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
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