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Dockge edits your compose files and leaves them untouched on disk; Portainer is the mature all-round console, with roles and GitOps reserved for Business Edition, free up to three nodes; Komodo deploys from Git across several servers with nothing held back for paying users, at the cost of a database and one agent per machine.
The Portainer Agent is a container you deploy on each remote machine, exposing port 9001 over TLS. The Portainer server connects to it and manages that host as one more environment, without exposing the Docker socket to the network or maintaining permanent SSH tunnels.
You install Portainer with Docker Compose by writing a single compose.yaml file and running two commands. Portainer CE 2.40 STS supports Docker Compose v2 natively, enables HTTPS on port 9443 out of the box, and manages Docker Engine, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI from one panel. It runs on Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13.
