# Portainer.io

> Portainer.io is an Auckland-founded, open-core software company that puts a visual control plane over Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Podman and distributed edge environments. Its wager is practical: most organizations need container outcomes but do not want every operator to become a cloud-native specialist. A free Community Edition creates reach, while Business Edition subscriptions, industrial and IoT licensing, managed services and commercially supported edge products turn that reach into revenue.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Auckland, New Zealand
- **Founders:** Neil Cresswell (Co-founder and CEO), Anthony Lapenna (Co-founder and original developer)
- **Team size:** Approximately 62 employees; LinkedIn lists a company-size band of 51-200.
- **Products:** Portainer Community Edition, Portainer Business Edition, Industrial and IoT management, Kubernetes Managed Services, KubeSolo
- **Notable:** Portainer reports more than 1 million users across more than 190 countries., The company crossed 1 billion Docker Hub pulls in 2020., Its public GitHub repository had approximately 37,600 stars and 2,800 forks when researched in August 2026.

## Products & services

- **Portainer Community Edition** — Free, open-source container management software with a web UI and API for Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes and related environments.
- **Portainer Business Edition** — The commercial edition adds enterprise controls such as RBAC, identity integrations, auditability, fleet governance, GitOps workflows and vendor support.
- **Industrial and IoT management** — Fleet-scale deployment and lifecycle management for distributed, edge, intermittent and air-gapped container environments.
- **Kubernetes Managed Services** — Design, operation, monitoring and support services for organizations that need Kubernetes outcomes without building a full specialist team.
- **KubeSolo** — An open-source, single-node Kubernetes distribution for constrained edge hardware, offered with commercial support and Portainer fleet management.
- **Portainer-Run** — A governed deployment portal that turns AI-generated source files into applications running on an organization's existing Kubernetes infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Portainer reports more than 1 million users across more than 190 countries.
- The company crossed 1 billion Docker Hub pulls in 2020.
- Its public GitHub repository had approximately 37,600 stars and 2,800 forks when researched in August 2026.
- A global technology customer reported a 14.2% productivity gain and about $226,500 in annual cost savings.
- A North American energy customer reported avoiding an estimated $1.7 million internal platform build.
- Cummins reduced 35 software variants to one standardized architecture in a published case study.
- Open Signal reported deployment time falling from roughly two hours to as little as 30 seconds.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Fuuz announced it would standardize on Portainer for manufacturing gateways and on-premise deployments.
- **2026-02** — Portainer released 2.39 LTS, consolidating Fleet Governance Policies, alerting, Git-based Helm deployments and other production-focused updates.
- **2026-03** — Portainer detailed KubeSolo, its minimal single-node Kubernetes distribution for constrained industrial and embedded hardware.
- **2026-06** — Portainer-Run reached general availability as a governed path for deploying AI-built internal applications to existing Kubernetes infrastructure.

## Links

- Website: https://www.portainer.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/portainer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/portainerio
- GitHub: https://github.com/portainer/portainer
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PortainerIO
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/portainerio

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Last updated: 2026-08-22