Welcome

Welcome to Portainer's official documentation site. Ours is an open source project and all community contributions are welcome and encouraged. If you're thinking about contributing to Portainer documentation, first read our contribution guidelines.

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About Portainer

Portainer Community Edition (CE) is our foundation. With over half a million regular users, CE is a powerful, open source toolset that allows you to easily build and manage containers in Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and Azure ACI.

Portainer hides the complexity of managing containers behind an easy-to-use UI. By removing the need to use the CLI, write YAML or understand manifests, Portainer makes deploying apps and troubleshooting problems so easy that anyone can do it.

Our team is here to help you on your journey. Engage with them any time through our community-based support channels.

Documentation

We're working hard to ensure that our documentation keeps up with our ever-growing Portainer community. If you have a question or a task, we encourage you to start with the documentation (right here!). If you can't find what you're looking for, please visit one of our support channels.

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Community and support channels

• **Ask questions **either in GitHub Issues or the community Slack channel. Other platforms exist (Reddit, Discord, Stack Overflow) but we are less active in those spaces.
• Log bugs in GitHub Issues so they can be properly managed.
• Flag vulnerabilities by emailing security@portainer.io so we can deal with them immediately.
• Flag documentation issues via our GitHub documentation channel (or start contributing and make our documentation better!).

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