Top 5 Docker Alternatives for Software Developers in 2024

Cloud Computing Developer Tools OS & Utilities

Podman Landing Page
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Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
Podman is an open-source visualization tool developed by RedHat. It leverages the libpod library as a container lifecycle management tool. It is a daemonless container engine OCI management on Linux. It is primarily made for Linux but can run on Windows and Mac using virtual machines managed by Podman.

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LXC Landing Page
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LXC

LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Linux Container Daemon (LXD) is a container and virtual machine manager developed by Canonical. It provides flexibility by offering a single process for multiple containers. It connects to the Linux container library (LXC) using a REST API. It is an add-on to LXC, providing more features and functionalities.

#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 38 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
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Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
Kubernetes, also known as "K8s," is a container orchestration tool developed by Google. It is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Docker and Kubernetes can be combined for better container management.

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containerd Landing Page
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containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Pricing:
- Open Source
Containerd is a runtime tool used for managing image transfers and storage as well as managing OCI containers. It can be integrated with Docker but can also be used without Docker integration. By using runc, it can function as a standalone component.

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