In Portainer terms, an environment is an instance that you want to manage through Portainer. Environments can be Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, ACI or a combination. One Portainer Server instance can manage multiple environments.

{% hint style="info" %} Endpoints were renamed to Environments in version 2.10. {% endhint %}

{% content-ref url="add/" %} add {% endcontent-ref %}

Environments can be organized in groups and given tags.

{% content-ref url="groups.md" %} groups.md {% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="tags.md" %} tags.md {% endcontent-ref %}

Access to environments can then be managed on a per-environment or per-environment group basis.

{% content-ref url="access.md" %} access.md {% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="access-groups.md" %} access-groups.md {% endcontent-ref %}