Welcome

Welcome to Portainer's official documentation site.

About Portainer

Portainer hides the complexity of managing containers behind an easy-to-use UI. By removing the need to use the CLI, write YAML or understand manifests, Portainer makes deploying apps and troubleshooting problems so easy that anyone can do it.

Portainer Business Edition (BE) is our product for businesses and organizations. With features including Role-Based Access Control, registry management, and dedicated support, Portainer BE is a powerful toolset that allows you to easily build and manage containers in Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm, Podman and Azure ACI. A license key is required to install and use Portainer BE - you can request three nodes free or purchase a license.

Portainer Community Edition (CE) is our free, open source option for home users and hobbyists. CE does not include all the features available in Business Edition - for a detailed comparison, see the features page on our website.

Our team is here to help you on your journey. Business customers can get help through our business support channels, and free tier users can get assistance through our community support channels.

Documentation

We're working hard to ensure our documentation keeps up with Portainer's continued growth. If you have a question, we encourage you to start with the documentation. If you can't find what you're looking for, please raise a question in one of our support channels.

For more detailed step-by-step guides, we're expanding the Portainer Academy and our YouTube channel with new courses regularly.

Getting support

Business Edition Customers

If you are a Professional or Enterprise tier Portainer Business Edition customer, you can log tickets directly with our team via email or by filling out the Request Support form. You can report a bug, ask a question, raise a documentation issue, or request a feature. Tickets are reviewed and responded to by Portainer staff within the SLA.

Five/Three Node Free, Home & Student, and Starter subscription users

Five/Three Node Free, Home & Student, and Starter subscription users can get support through the following channels:

• Ask our AI bot from our Ask the AI webpage. Our AI chatbot pulls from a number of sources and is a great place to start when looking for help.
• Ask questions either in our GitHub Discussions forum or the community Slack channel. Other platforms exist (Reddit, Discord, Stack Overflow) but we are less active in those spaces.
• Log bugs in GitHub Issues so they can be properly managed.
• Report any security vulnerabilities by emailing [email protected] or by opening a vulnerability report in GitHub so the issue can be reviewed and addressed as quickly as possible.
• Flag documentation issues via our GitHub documentation channel (or start contributing and make our documentation better!).