Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Docker

Product categories

API Tools APIs Cloud Computing Cloud Hosting Containers As A Service Continuous Integration And Delivery DevOps Tools Developer APIs Developer Tools Development Kubernetes OS & Utilities

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Docker are Kubernetes, Rancher, and Amazon ECS. 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.

Kubernetes Landing Page
1

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
Rancher Landing Page
2

Rancher

Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 24 social mentions
Amazon ECS Landing Page
3

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
Terraform Landing Page
4

Terraform

Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 31 social mentions
Marathon Landing Page
5

Marathon

Marathon is a production-grade container orchestration platform for Mesosphere.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Hosting #VPS #Cloud Computing
Helm.sh Landing Page
6

Helm.sh

The Kubernetes Package Manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 134 social mentions
Apache Mesos Landing Page
7

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
Podman Landing Page
8

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions
Fission.io Landing Page
9

Fission.io

Fission.io is a serverless framework for Kubernetes that supports many concepts such as event triggers, parallel execution, and statelessness.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 4 social mentions
Nuclio Landing Page
10

Nuclio

Nuclio is an open source serverless platform.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Development 1 social mentions
Postman Landing Page
11

Postman

The Collaboration Platform for API Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#APIs #API Tools #Developer Tools 27 social mentions
Buildah Landing Page
12

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