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Comment by _cmmn | Hacker News Reader

Why should I use this instead of Kubernetes?

As far as I understand, this is 'only' a UI layer on top of Docker and Docker Swarm. So this doesn't tackle any of the problems which Kubernetes (or Docker Swarm, for that matter) would, like scheduling and service discovery. Two very different things, really.

We are adding "tasks or jobs" in Feb/March timeframe, which will allow you to schedule any portainer task (such as scaling up or down a service). Swarmmode really does make service discovery a lot simpler, no need for Consul etc.

That's great to hear, I hope the best for the project! I meant 'scheduling' in the cluster management sense (which containers run in which nodes), though.

Is there a similarly simple and rich UI for Kube?

Kubernetes Dashboard - http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/07/dashboard-web-interface-fo...

I think the official Web UI for K8s gets very close to: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/ui/

Tectonic by CoreOS comes with a console. See screenshots at the bottom of the page: https://tectonic.com/

    cockpit-kubernetes.x86_64 : Cockpit user interface for Kubernetes cluster
    cockpit-docker.x86_64 : Cockpit user interface for Docker containers
    cockpit-storaged.noarch : Cockpit user interface for storage, using Storaged

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