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Solaris Zones VS WPARs

Compare Solaris Zones VS WPARs and see what are their differences

Solaris Zones logo Solaris Zones

Container Engine

WPARs logo WPARs

The most popular innovation of IBM AIX Version 6.
  • Solaris Zones Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-02-14
  • WPARs Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-22

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Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Solaris Zones and WPARs)
Developer Tools
70 70%
30% 30
Cloud Computing
54 54%
46% 46
Web Servers
56 56%
44% 44
Containers As A Service
57 57%
43% 43

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Solaris Zones and WPARs, you can also consider the following products

Docker Hub - Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service

Apache Mesos - Apache Mesos abstracts resources away from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification - opencontainers/runc

rkt - App Container runtime

Sandboxie - Sandboxie is a program for Windows that is designed to allow the user to isolate individual programs on the hard drive.

FreeBSD Jails - Jails on the other hand permit software packages to view the system egoistically, as if each package had the machine to itself.