When comparing Rancher vs Panamax, the Slant community recommends Rancher for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to Portainer?” Rancher is ranked 1st while Panamax is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Rancher is:
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
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Pros
Pro Web GUI cluster management
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
Pro Mult-environment cluster system
- Cattle (Rancher default)
- Swarm
- Kubernetes
- Mesos
Pro Service catalog is easy
Rancher provides a catalog of application templates that make it easy to deploy complex stacks.
- Rancher certified catalog
- Community service catalog
Pro Self-service application stack for self-monitoring
Great contributions from the co community who build the service stack catalog.
One of them is the "Prometheus" template which deploys a collection of containers for monitoring a platform. It's capable of querying all aspects of your environment with some nice pre-built dashboards.
Pro Access control polices
Detailed role-based access control policies can be defined independently for each cluster.
Pro Works on all platforms
This software will run on virtually anything. It can be your laptop, PC, or even cloud (given it supports CoreOS, e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform).
Pro Free and open source
This software is available for free to use, improve, and distribute. With large community of developers, Panamax deals with bugs and other issues quickly and efficiently.
Cons
Con Not maintained
The last commits on GitHub were years ago.