Air-gap capable. Offline-first. No Kubernetes knowledge required. Portainer manages containerized applications across factory floors, energy grids, and remote edge sites: safely and reliably.
From manufacturing floors to retail locations, connected vehicles to oil fields, modern operations require specialized software: MES systems, SCADA platforms, historians, edge analytics, and vendor applications from Xiid, Fuuz, Ignition, Critical Manufacturing, Softing, and Cedalo. Increasingly, that software ships with AI models built in, with features like vision inspection, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance, and it still runs on the same constrained hardware. Deploying and maintaining those systems across hundreds or thousands of distributed sites is operationally expensive and error-prone, and it requires expertise most operational teams do not have.
Manual updates mean downtime; inconsistent configurations mean operational risk; and sending specialists to every remote location is unsustainable.
Portainer is the software control plane that lets you deploy, manage, and update operational technology applications across your entire distributed network, covering factories, retail stores, vehicles, remote sites, and edge infrastructure, consistently and safely and at scale, with no deep IT skills or cloud expertise required; a single Portainer instance manages up to 150,000 edge devices, which means a national retail estate or a continent of substations is governed as one fleet rather than partitioned across management planes to fit the tooling.
Securely managing containerized apps across manufacturing operations worldwide.
Powering edge deployments across distributed automotive operations.
Automating edge deployments from lamp posts to wall boxes.
Factories, energy, logistics, aerospace, and wastewater. OT teams with no Kubernetes experience managing ISV-supplied containerized industrial software at scale.
Retail chains, telecom edge, smart cities, connected vehicles. Centralized fleet management at scale across thousands of geographically distributed nodes.
Ships, oil fields, mining sites, remote infrastructure. Async edge agents that operate safely offline and sync when connectivity is restored.
As AI-powered applications move onto edge hardware, the same governance questions apply everywhere they land. Who can deploy it? What it can reach? What's the record if something goes wrong?
Portainer provides three agent types to support different network and operational constraints. Each connects to the same central control plane.
Bi-directional, in-band communication for secure on-prem networks. Lowest latency. Direct runtime access.
Outbound-only communication. No inbound firewall rules required. Optional mTLS for device identity. Reduced attack surface.
Pull-based command execution. Offline-safe. Resilient under high latency. Queues updates until connectivity is restored.
Your IT team controls deployments, policies, and fleet governance through Portainer's operator control plane. The people on the plant floor, at remote sites, and in the field don't need to see any of that. They get a purpose-built experience for their job, governed entirely by the policies your IT team sets.
These are the technology companies working with Portainer to deliver complete industrial edge solutions, from OPC connectivity and MQTT infrastructure to system integration and hardware.
Electrical interconnection and automation technology, connecting machines, devices and IT systems.
Read the joint solution ISV · EuropeSecure, and scalable MQTT infrastructure so teams can connect systems, move data in real time, and reduce operational risk.
Visit site ISV · North AmericaA single, intuitive, no-code platform designed for subject matter experts from data integration to advanced applications.
Visit site Reseller · EuropeIndustrial OPC UA and MQTT data aggregation platform to securely aggregate and distribute PLC and CNC data to IT systems.
Read the joint solution ISV · North AmericaA secure communications plane for AI, autonomous systems, and the networks that connect them.
Read the joint solution Reseller · South AmericaRegional distribution and delivery with solutions for automation, networks, and industrial connectivity.
Visit siteSee the hardware OEMs, independent software vendors, and system integrators we work with around the world and get more detail into our joint solutions.
Full partner listTalk to our industrial team about your OT deployment.