Just got an email thanking me for being a 5-node/free user, but Portainer isn’t free and I need to stop being a cheap-ass and pay them because blah blah economic times enshittification blah blah blah.
I’ve moved off them a while ago, but figured I’d see if they emailed EVERYONE about this?
A good time to ditch them if you haven’t, I suppose.
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I’ve never really seen why portainer is used beyond a shiny UI. Docker compose file is enough for me
Being a terminal purist is wonderful for those of us who live our lives deep in the caverns of Linux, but in actual production use you very often find situations where less technical users have to interact with the systems that we build.
For my work, I need a way for low level tech support and technicians to go in and restart a container from time to time, and these people curl up in a ball and scream if you show them a command prompt. Having a UI removes a lot of friction.
I use portainer, but I don’t think I ever gave them my information. How would they even have my email?
If you register for a free 5-node license, you have to enter your contact data.
Are you using portainer-ee? Never had to do that using portainer-ce
yes
Why would you bother? Portainer isn’t anything very useful for Docker. Set up your compose files and go to bed.
Lazydocker if you need an SSH TUI.
portainer sucks anyways. shells dont work really. dockGE is free. https://github.com/louislam/dockge
I am very happy with dockge!
Yes, I got it too. $ 149/yr for a “home and student” noncommercial license? No thanks.
But for businesses, the pricing seems fair.
I didn’t even bother to look since, well, I just moved to compose files sitting in a folder instead but uh, $150? Seriously?
That’d be the most expensive bit of all of my stacks, including hosting and power costs.
At least for my personal use, I’m not willing to spend money on portainer. The free edition is fine.
I‘m fine with paying because I‘m starting a business. But I‘m not fine with tracking the payments so I will donate a set percentage of my profits (once I have them) to an open source group, no idea which one yet. The rest is not my problem.
I didn’t get the email and have the 5 node free business plan, but cant see the home/student price on the site. I guess it time to look at switching to dockge or something
As long as Portainer CE will be free, I’ll stick with it.
Same here, it’s totally sufficient and never saw the reason to “upgrade” to the free business nodes
So dumb. How many hobbyists will pay that? A tiny fraction. Then in 4-5 years these guys will be sitting around wondering why their new business customer numbers fell off a cliff.
Don’t bite the hand that proselytizes for you at the office.
That’s the business ed not the community. There’s no limit in aware of in the community ed
They reduced the free option from 5 nodes to 3 a while back. Looks like only the people who had the 5 node license received that email.
I dont ever recall giving portainer my real email.
Got one aswell, i have used their free 5 node business option but since switched over to dockge and I’m happy
Ofc portainer does so much more but I just don’t need it anymore
I recently switched to Dockge and it suites my needs. I like some aspects of Dockge better, but I like the network and image management features of portainer.
Yeah, network and image management is what I miss most
Does anyone know if dockge allows you to directly connect to a git repo to pull compose files?
This is what I like most about portainer. I work in the compose files from an IDE and the check them into my self hosted git repo.
Then on portainer, the stack is connected to the repo so only press a button to pull the latest compose and there is a check box to decide if I want the docker image to update or not.
Works really well and makes it very easy to roll back if needed.
I personally never understood the need for fancy docker guis. You can do that from the command line easily. If you want to automate it you can use Ansible.
Wait.
Does Portainer ask your email? I haven’t used it in years. I though it was just a container that you run, with mounted docker socket, and that’s it.
Is it now doing some “telemetry” and sending user data, like email, to their servers? If so, I’m glad I’m not using that anymore.
I’ve been screwing around with yacht.sh as an open source alternative. It’s aight.
seems to have issues with chrome on a macBook; more reason to move to firefox?
Pretty much, yeah.
CE FTW
This is why I never got into portainer
