Portainer Industries
Industrial & IoT solution

Container management for environments that never sleep.

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.

Works fully offline
0Kubernetes expertise needed
150,000Edge nodes per instance
Portainer fleet view showing distributed edge environments and their status

Trusted by industrial operators worldwide

Nextracker Materna US Gypsum McKesson Cummins Volkswagen
Who it's built for

Three segments. One control plane.

Industrial IoT

Factories, energy, logistics, aerospace, and wastewater. OT teams with no Kubernetes experience managing ISV-supplied containerized industrial software at scale.

Enterprise IoT

Retail chains, telecom edge, smart cities, connected vehicles. Centralized fleet management at scale across thousands of geographically distributed nodes.

Remote & disconnected

Ships, oil fields, mining sites, remote infrastructure. Async edge agents that operate safely offline and sync when connectivity is restored.

Agent architecture

The right agent for every network constraint.

Portainer provides three agent types to support different network and operational constraints. Each connects to the same central control plane.

LAN agent

Trusted networks

Bi-directional, in-band communication for secure internal data centers. Lowest latency. Direct runtime access.

Bi-directionalLowest latencyData center
Remote agent

Untrusted networks

Outbound-only communication. No inbound firewall rules required. Optional mTLS for device identity. Reduced attack surface.

Outbound onlyNo inbound portsmTLS identity
Async edge agent

Disconnected & OT

Pull-based command execution. Offline-safe. Resilient under high latency. Queues updates until connectivity is restored.

Pull-basedOffline-safeAir-gappedOT networks
The operator experience

Governing the edge is one side of the story. How your OT teams use it is the other.

Your IT team controls deployments, policies, and fleet governance through Portainer's operator control plane. But the people on the plant floor, at remote sites, and in the field don't need to see any of that. They need a purpose-built experience for their job.

Industrial App Portal: built for the people on the floor

The Industrial App Portal is a purpose-built interface for OT operators, technicians, and automation engineers who don't need to know Kubernetes exists. Infrastructure is abstracted entirely. They interact only with concepts that match their operational world.

All actions taken through the Industrial App Portal are governed by the policies and access controls set by your IT team in the Portainer operator control plane. OT operators can only do what they're permitted to do.

Industrial App Portal catalog view as presented to an OT operator
Industrial App Portal deployment view showing site targeting
Partner ecosystem

Industrial & IoT partners

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.

WAGO

Manufacturer / OEM · Europe

inray

Independent software vendor · Europe

Cedalo

Independent software vendor · Europe

40 Factory

System integrator · Europe

Softing Industrial Automation

Value-added reseller · Europe

Arch Systems

Independent software vendor · North America

SORBA.ai

Independent software vendor · North America

Westcon

Value-added reseller · Brazil

Ready to govern your industrial edge?

Talk to our industrial team about your OT deployment.