Docker Alternatives

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Docker

This has been a guide on Docker Alternatives. Here we have discussed the top 8 Docker Alternatives with Pros and Cons. You may also look at the following articles to learn more –

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VirtualBox

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Vagrant

An open-source software Vagrant is a tool developed for building, supporting and maintaining portable virtual environments for software development. The objective of this tool is to maximize the development productivity by trying to simplify Software Configuration Management of Virtualizations. The program is developed using Ruby. However, the ecosystem supports development in a few more languages.

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Wox

Wox has been proven to be a very effective launcher for the Windows Operating System. Wox is an open-source code that is a full-featured launcher that helps the developer to access programs, web content and other information parallel to other work. This helps the developer to be more productive. Wox is freely available at Github.

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Rancher

An open-source code, Rancher is another one among the list of Docker alternatives that is built to provide organizations with everything they need. This software combines the environments required to adopt and run containers in production. A rancher is built on Kubernetes. This tool helps the DevOps team by making it easier to testing, deploying and managing the applications. A rancher is used by the operations team to deploy, manage and secure every deployment by Kubernetes irrespective of the platform they are running on.

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Kubernetes

An open-source code, Rancher is another one among the list of Docker alternatives that is built to provide organizations with everything they need. This software combines the environments required to adopt and run containers in production. A rancher is built on Kubernetes. This tool helps the DevOps team by making it easier to testing, deploying and managing the applications. A rancher is used by the operations team to deploy, manage and secure every deployment by Kubernetes irrespective of the platform they are running on.

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Apache Mesos

Another Docker alternative is Apache Mesos. This tool is designed to leverage the features of modern kernels in order to carry out functions like resource isolation, prioritization, limiting & accounting. These functions are generally carried out by groups in the Linux or zones in the Solaris. What Mesos does is, it provides isolation for the Memory, I/O devices, file systems, and the CPU. Using Linux containers is also possible but Mesos is limited to CPU and Memory.

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LXC

The 3 main components of LXC Container include LXC, LXD which is the runtime component, a Daemon thread developed in GO. This component manages containers and images. The third component is LXFUSE. This component manages the file systems. LXC is an older, more popular but a lower level set of tools. LXD component expands on LXC thus offering a better User Interface and CLI for better management of the container. LXD emulates the experience that is used for operating the available Virtual Machines but only in the terma of the containers. This is done without any server overhead of the Virtual Machines. LXD component can be configured on both Windows and MacOS clients. This Linux container has some disadvantages like an absence of Kubernetes integration and LXC not being PCI compliant. But LXRUN is very likely to resolve these shortcomings.

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