What are the minimum VPS requirements for Portainer?

Portainer minimum requirements in the RunOnVPS dataset are RAM 512MB, CPU 1, disk 5GB. Values marked Estimated were not published as complete hardware requirements by the checked source.

What VPS tier does RunOnVPS suggest for Portainer?

RunOnVPS suggests the 4 GB RAM tier as a starting point. This is our own sizing suggestion derived from the recommended RAM (4GB), not an official provider recommendation.

Does Portainer support Docker?

The checked dataset records Docker support for Portainer as: Yes.

Does Portainer need a GPU?

Portainer GPU requirement: Not required. See the source notes on this page for workload-specific exceptions.

Monitoring / Analytics / Infra

Portainer on VPS

Lightweight container management UI for Docker Swarm Podman and Kubernetes

See requirements View on GitHub

GitHub stars: 38706
License: Zlib
Docker: Yes
GPU: Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

Portainer hardware requirements
Resource	Minimum	Recommended
RAM	512MB Estimated	4GB Official
CPU	1 Estimated	2 Official
Disk	5GB Estimated	Not stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

4 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from Portainer’s recommended RAM of 4GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

Rancher

Portainer is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to Rancher. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Source check

Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24 (repo license is zlib). Official docs do not publish a RAM/CPU minimum for the Portainer Server container itself (docs only require a Docker host and persistent storage; DreamHost's summary of the docs confirms no RAM minimum is published) — min 配置为基于其单容器默认部署的估算. rec_ram/rec_cpu are Portainer's official architecture deployment reference sizing for a small deployment (up to ~20 clusters / ~100 users: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 10 GB storage), well above single-host homelab needs. Portainer itself runs as a Docker container.

Data source: https://architecture.portainer.io/ch2

Project repository: https://github.com/portainer/portainer

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