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Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by sarreph » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

Beautiful website. IMO, please use a solid colour for the contact form section at the end. Much better that they are usable than 'look nice'.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by mbreese » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

Is this commercial? Open source? I managed to find the github repository[1]. While it is linked to on the homepage, it isn't all that discoverable. From there, it looks like this is licensed until a BSD-like (zlib) license. If that's the case, what's the model for this? Is there a commercial offering coming, or is it really just an open-source management engine?

[1] https://github.com/portainer

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by ncresswell » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:50 PM UTC

mbreese wrote: post #42

Is this commercial? Open source? I managed to find the github repository[1]. While it is linked to on the homepage, it isn't all that discoverable. From there, it looks like this is licensed until a BSD-like (zlib) license. If that's the case, what's the model for this? Is there a commercial offering coming, or is it really just an open-source management engine? [1] https://github.com/portainer

Hi there, we are releasing portainer as opensource, with a paid support option available for people running in production. In the future we also plan to offer paid plugins/extensions, to support things like LDAP authentication. The core functionality will always be free and always open source.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by ncresswell » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:52 PM UTC

hultner wrote: post #35

deviantony wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there ! We have a comparison table on our website: http://portainer.io/portainer-comparison.html The main advantage against shipyard is that you only need to deploy one container to run Portainer, it's really simple and quick. Shipyard deployment is more complex.

Have you ever thought about adding support for kvm/QEMU/virsh-based virtual machines as well? I've been looking for a easy to use interface that gives a comprehensive overview of virtual machines as well as containers as I'm often using a mix of both.

At the moment, we are focussed purely on docker containers... Our mantra, focus on one thing and do that one thing better than anyone else

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by ncresswell » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:55 PM UTC

robinduckett wrote: post #17

Related to this project? https://github.com/duedil-ltd/portainer

Just an unfortunate coincidence that we used the same name... We are totally unrelated to that project

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by ncresswell » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

dbyte wrote: post #4

deviantony wrote: post #2

Main developer here, feel free to ask any questions :)

Great work. Thanks. Do you have a roadmap for the future?

Anthony and I plan to get together next week to map out our vision, so expect to see a roadmap published on the main portainer website very soon

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by ncresswell » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 6:59 PM UTC

unlogic wrote: post #8

deviantony wrote: post #2

Main developer here, feel free to ask any questions :)

We currently use DockerUI on our instances. What would be the compelling reason to switch to Portainer?

We used DockerUI as our initial inspiration and codebase, but have added so many more features, and make it so much cleaner... If you are using DockerUI, then switching to portainer should be an easy choice

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by deviantony » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 8:13 PM UTC

ysh7 wrote: post #39

deviantony wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there ! We have a comparison table on our website: http://portainer.io/portainer-comparison.html The main advantage against shipyard is that you only need to deploy one container to run Portainer, it's really simple and quick. Shipyard deployment is more complex.

That comparison looks inaccurate. Shipyard does support tagging images. Also will support Swarm [1] mode (and volume/ network support) [1] https://github.com/shipyard/shipyard/pull/837

Thanks, I will update the comparison table. I did not include 'next' features in the table :)

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by deviantony » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 8:14 PM UTC

indexerror wrote: post #29

Very Cool! 1. Is there some auth mechanism like Shipyard where I can make new users and set their access scopes? 2. Can you please mention the source code on your page? It is nowhere to be seen ( https://github.com/portainer/portainer ).

Thanks !

Role based access control is our next big feature on the roadmap, we're working on it :)

And yes, there is a link to the source code on the homepage.

Re: Show HN: Portainer – A lightweight management UI for Docker

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Post by deviantony » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 8:16 PM UTC

johnhenry wrote: post #38

edwinjm wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will there be a OSX (MacOS) version? It's quite rare for software to have Windows and Linux support, but no OSX support.

I tried the instructions for Linux on a Mac: https://portainer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deployment.html#c... . (I'm guessing the developers simply haven't tested on Mac) So far, it seems to work. My guess is that the developers haven't had a chance to test on a Mac and just don't want to make any claims just yet.

This is awesome ! Indeed we don't have any Mac and so we did not have the possibility to try it. We'll ask a few Mac users to give it a go before claiming Mac support. Thanks a lot !