# Portainer Container Management

> Use this tool when you need to manage containerized infrastructure, monitor environments, and control access to deployments. It provides a bridge between AI assistants and container management platforms, offering tools for managing environments, stacks, and users through a secure API proxying capability. Ideal for use cases such as environment monitoring, access control management, and stack deployment, it supports both standard and customized deployments with flexible configuration options.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/portainer-container-management  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/portainer-container-management

## Description

Portainer MCP Server provides a bridge between AI assistants and Portainer container management platform through a Go implementation. The server exposes tools for managing environments, stacks, teams, users, and tags, while also offering Docker and Kubernetes API proxying capabilities. Built with strict version compatibility checks and an optional read-only mode for enhanced security, it enables AI assistants to interact with containerized infrastructure for use cases such as environment monitoring, access control management, and stack deployment. The implementation embeds tool definitions in the binary while supporting external configuration, making it flexible for both standard and customized deployments.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.77
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** cloud-infra
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/portainer-container-management)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/portainer/portainer-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "portainer-container-management"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/portainer-container-management` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/portainer-container-management/pull`

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