Beyond Docker - A DevOps Engineer's Guide to Container Alternatives

Cloud Computing OS & Utilities Developer Tools

Podman Landing Page
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Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
In the intensity of working as a DevOps engineer with the container, I have found Podman to be a game-changer in teams that take the security aspect seriously-that means avoiding root privileges. It's daemonless compared with Docker, which is a big architectural change. Daemonless approach just magically changes how teams do container security in production environments.

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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
Working with legacy applications that needed full system access taught me that a different way to do containerization is by using LXC/LXD. The focus in system containers, rather than application containers, can be thought of like a light VM rather than what most consider the typical container.

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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
Having operated large Kubernetes clusters, one learns to love the focused approach of containerd. A light-weight, high-performance container runtime, it powers a lot of container platforms, including indirectly, Kubernetes. From my experience, containerd really does one thing and does it well: it runs containers efficiently.

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