**_Portainer_** is a lightweight management UI which allows you to **easily** manage your different Docker environments (Docker hosts or Swarm clusters).
**_Portainer_** is meant to be as **simple** to deploy as it is to use. It consists of a single container that can run on any Docker engine (can be deployed as Linux container or a Windows native container, supports other platforms too).
**_Portainer_** allows you to manage all your Docker resources (containers, images, volumes, networks and more!) It is compatible with the _standalone Docker_ engine and with _Docker Swarm mode_.
Unlike the public demo, the playground sessions are deleted after 4 hours. Apart from that, all the settings are the same, including default credentials.
For community support: You can find more information about Portainer's community support framework policy here: https://www.portainer.io/products/community-edition/customer-success
- Want to help us build **_portainer_**? Follow our [contribution guidelines](https://documentation.portainer.io/contributing/instructions/) to build it locally and make a pull request. We need all the help we can get!
- Here at Portainer, we believe in [responsible disclosure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure) of security issues. If you have found a security issue, please report it to <security@portainer.io>.
**To make sure we focus our development effort in the right places we need to know which features get used most often. To give us this information we use [Matomo Analytics](https://matomo.org/), which is hosted in Germany and is fully GDPR compliant.**
When Portainer first starts, you are given the option to DISABLE analytics. If you **don't** choose to disable it, we collect anonymous usage as per [our privacy policy](https://www.portainer.io/documentation/in-app-analytics-and-privacy-policy/). **Please note**, there is no personally identifiable information sent or stored at any time and we only use the data to help us improve Portainer.
