G2 Vendor Directory

Red Hat OpenShift vs. Portainer

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricRed Hat OpenShift

by Red Hat

Portainer

by Portainer

Overall rating4.54.8
Review count306299
Ease of use8.49.5
Ease of setup8.19.5
Quality of support8.79.2
Meets requirements8.99.4
NPS64.94845488.215488
Small Business24.1%81.6%
Mid-Market27.4%11.2%
Enterprise48.5%7.1%
Total page views2,028653
Total LLM citations5,5396,073

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is an open source, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications across on-premise, private cloud and public cloud infrastructure.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Kubernetes Management
  • Scalability
  • Integrations
  • Deployment Ease

Portainer

Portainer is an operator control plane for Kubernetes and Docker, giving enterprise IT and Industrial IoT teams centralized governance over container infrastructure without specialist overhead. Through a single platform, Portainer delivers RBAC, GitOps-driven deployments, fleet management, and security enforcement across multi-cluster enterprise environments and air-gapped edge deployments. No bespoke platform builds. No dependency on hard-to-hire specialists.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Docker Management
  • User Interface
  • Features
  • Efficiency Improvement
  • Container Management