Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to CoreOS

The top open-source alternatives to CoreOS are Docker, Amazon ECS, and Marathon. 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.

Docker Landing Page
1

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
Amazon ECS Landing Page
2

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
Marathon Landing Page
3

Marathon

Marathon is a production-grade container orchestration platform for Mesosphere.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Hosting #VPS #Cloud Computing
Docker Hub Landing Page
4

Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 306 social mentions
Apache Mesos Landing Page
5

Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos abstracts resources away from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #DevOps Tools 7 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
Kubernetes Landing Page
7

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 283 social mentions
OpenStack Landing Page
8

OpenStack

OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions
Warewolf Landing Page
9

Warewolf

Warewolf provides developers with drag and drop environment to design and create microservices.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting #Containers As A Service
Honeycomb Landing Page
10

Honeycomb

Honeycomb is a powerful tool for complex/distributed systems, microservices, and databases.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting #Containers As A Service 13 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
11

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
QEMU Landing Page
12

QEMU

QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions