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# Portainer

## Portainer

[Link to GitHub or Website](https://www.portainer.io/)

Portainer's *hybrid & multi-cloud container management software* supports Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm in any Data Center, Cloud, Network Edge or IIoT Device.

The main instance of Portainer is hosted on Espresso but each other Docker host also has the Portainer Edge Agent installed, which enable central management.

### Flowchart

<img src="/files/ijJjetSCUWiN7GjVxLDG" alt="" class="gitbook-drawing">

As Portainer needs to be installed BEFORE we can use GitOps compose files, we do not use have a Compose file for it.