What Is Portainer?

Book description

Portainer works with both Docker and Kubernetes to make the deployment and management of containerized applications and services easier and more efficient. If you're looking for a quick read to understand how Portainer fits into the cloud native landscape, the problems it can solve for engineering teams, and how organizations can leverage it to bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern software deployment standards, this concise and practical report fits the bill. It covers:

  • How Portainer works
  • Use cases such as container security, multicluster management, and RBAC
  • How to keep your container infrastructure secure and stable by defining different access levels for different people
  • The common problems in cloud native architecture that Kubernetes and Portainer can solve
  • Migrating legacy workloads to Kubernetes
  • How to manage your application stack incorporating industry best practices like GitOps, role-based access control, and hybrid cloud environments
  • And more

Product information

  • Title: What Is Portainer?
  • Author(s): Fabian Peter
  • Release date: February 2023
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781098142094