Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to containerd

The top open-source alternatives to containerd are CRI-O, GlusterFS, and Podman. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

CRI-O Landing Page
1

CRI-O

Lightweight Container Runtime for Kubernetes
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage #OS & Utilities 17 social mentions
GlusterFS Landing Page
2

GlusterFS

GlusterFS is a scale-out network-attached storage file system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Storage #Cloud Computing 2 social mentions
Podman Landing Page
3

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #OS & Utilities 101 social mentions
Sheepdog Landing Page
4

Sheepdog

Sheepdog is a distributed object storage system for volume and container services and manages the...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Storage #Cloud Computing
Buildah Landing Page
5

Buildah

Buildah is a web-based OCI container tool that allows you to manage the wide range of images in your OCI container and helps you to build the image container from the scratch.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#OS & Utilities #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 10 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
6

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
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 33 social mentions
OpenEBS Landing Page
7

OpenEBS

Container-based distributed storage
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Storage #Storage #Cloud Computing 8 social mentions
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Landing Page
8

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service 37 social mentions
Amazon ECS Landing Page
9

Amazon ECS

Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 46 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
10

Xen

Xen Project: Open Source Hypervisor, High Performance Clouds, Free Software, Open Source Virtualization, Open Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Mobile Virtualization, Embedded Virtualization.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions
virt-manager Landing Page
11

virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 64 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
12

Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions