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Portainer CE

v1.0.0
Load

Up to 10 environments (local plus Agents or Edge Agents), up to 20 users and teams, up to 300 containers, up to 30 stacks, some deployed from Git.

Options

No options change this app's resources.

Recommended resources

App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.

vCPU 0.72, RAM 2.1 GiB, Disk 15.295 GiB

vCPU0.72
RAM2.1GiB
Disk15.295GiB
Breakdown
LineFromvCPURAM (GiB)Disk (GiB)Sources
Portainer CEPortainer Server (CE) · Medium load0.50.55.212345367
System baselineOperating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 1 containers0.11.258.18910111213
Safety headroomvCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline0.120.351.995149151216
Recommended total0.722.115.295
Sources
  1. Portainer docs: Requirements and prerequisites (Community 2.45.2 LTS tested with Docker 28.5.1 and 29.8.1; ports 9443, 8000, agent 9001; Git stacks cloned to the data volume) (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  2. portainer/k8s Helm chart values.yaml (chart 245.2.0: resources {} with no requests or limits, persistence size 10Gi) (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  3. Docker Hub tag portainer/portainer-ce:2.45.2 (linux/amd64): 44,841,545 B compressed; 7 layers decompressed and counted: 155,530,240 B (server binary layer 106,047,488 B) (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  4. Image config of portainer/portainer-ce:2.45.2 (linux/amd64): no User (root), ExposedPorts 8000 9000 9443, Volumes /data, Entrypoint /portainer, no Healthcheck (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  5. Portainer docs: Settings > General (snapshot every 5 minutes; Force HTTPS only; Download backup file; S3, Azure and scheduled backups are Business Edition only; restore on a fresh instance) (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  6. Docker: containerd image store is the default on fresh Engine 29+ installs and keeps images compressed and uncompressed (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  7. Portainer FAQ: Why is my Portainer backup so large? (Git stacks are shallow-cloned into /data/compose/<stack-id>, once per stack) (Portainer CE, read 14 Oct 2026)
  8. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  9. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  10. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  11. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  12. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  13. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  14. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  15. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  16. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Basis
Catalog release
2026.10.10
Sizing policy
2026.10.0
Profile Portainer CE
1.0.0

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