portainer/README.md

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**Portainer CE** is a lightweight ‘universal’ management GUI that can be used to **easily** manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. It is designed to be as **simple** to deploy as it is to use.

Portainer consists of a single container that can run on any cluster. It can be deployed as a Linux container or a Windows native container.

**Portainer** allows you to manage all your orchestrator resources (containers, images, volumes, networks and more) through a super-simple graphical interface.

A fully supported version of Portainer is available for business use. Visit http://www.portainer.io to learn more

## Demo

You can try out the public demo instance: http://demo.portainer.io/ (login with the username **admin** and the password **tryportainer**).

Please note that the public demo cluster is **reset every 15min**.

## Latest Version

Portainer CE is updated regularly. We aim to do an update release every couple of months.

**The latest version of Portainer is 2.6.x** And you can find the release notes [here.](https://www.portainer.io/blog/new-portainer-ce-2.6.0-release)
Portainer is on version 2, the second number denotes the month of release.

## Getting started

- [Deploy Portainer](https://documentation.portainer.io/quickstart/)
- [Documentation](https://documentation.portainer.io)
- [Contribute to the project](https://documentation.portainer.io/contributing/instructions/)

## Features & Functions

View [this](https://www.portainer.io/products) table to see all of the Portainer CE functionality and compare to Portainer Business.

- [Portainer CE for Docker / Docker Swarm](https://www.portainer.io/solutions/docker)
- [Portainer CE for Kubernetes](https://www.portainer.io/solutions/kubernetes-ui)
- [Portainer CE for Azure ACI](https://www.portainer.io/solutions/serverless-containers)

## Getting help

Portainer CE is an open source project and is supported by the community. You can buy a supported version of Portainer at portainer.io

Learn more about Portainers community support channels [here.](https://www.portainer.io/help_about)

- Issues: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues
- Slack (chat): https://portainer.io/slack/

You can join the Portainer Community by visiting community.portainer.io. This will give you advance notice of events, content and other related Portainer content.

## Reporting bugs and contributing

- Want to report a bug or request a feature? Please open [an issue](https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/new).
- 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!

## Security

- 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>.

## Privacy

**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.

## Limitations

Portainer supports "Current - 2 docker versions only. Prior versions may operate, however these are not supported.

## Licensing

Portainer is licensed under the zlib license. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for reference.

Portainer also contains code from open source projects. See [ATTRIBUTIONS.md](./ATTRIBUTIONS.md) for a list.