r/portainer is a subreddit with 18k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses portainer, docker, stack, network, and container.
Portainer delivers operational control for Kubernetes, Docker, and Swarm, without the specialist overhead. For enterprise IT teams governing multi-cluster infrastructure and OT teams managing Industrial IoT and edge deployments.
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Popular Themes in r/portainer
#1
Solution Requests
: "Trying to move away from portainer"
21 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "What the hell is this rebranding?"
8 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Neil Cresswell, the CEO of Portainer, is asking me for feedback on the new Branding. I would like to get more peoples opinions to have a nice collected base to share!"
5 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Portainer Solutions / Portainer for Enterprise"
2 posts
#5
News
: "Deprecation Notice: MicroK8s Cluster Provisioning in Portainer"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/portainer
#1
Portainer
: "Docker 29 is currently not compatible with Portainer. If you upgrade, you may experience issues. Our team is already working on support for Docker 29 and we will provide an update once it is fully validated."
229 posts
#2
Docker
: "Docker 29 is currently not compatible with Portainer. If you upgrade, you may experience issues. Our team is already working on support for Docker 29 and we will provide an update once it is fully validated."
206 posts
#3
Stack
: "Deploy from existing Stack?"
37 posts
#4
Network
: "Separate Network for Pihole"
31 posts
#5
Container
: "Simplify Docker Container Management on ctrlX OS with Portainer Edge Agent Snap"
28 posts
#6
Update
: "Updated to 2.27.6 now stacks are "Limited" but still running"
28 posts
#7
Stacks
: "This stack was created outside of Portainer. Control over this stack is limited. Why?"
22 posts
#8
Containers
: "Just finished setting up Containers, how do i set the published port links to go to the actual container port"
22 posts
#9
Error
21 posts
#10
Kubernetes
: "Kubernetes API Hacking: What You Don’t Know Can't Hurt You, right?"
14 posts
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Last updated: August 2, 2026