Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to LXD

The top open-source alternatives to LXD are Docker Hub, Podman, and CRI-O. 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 Hub Landing Page
1

Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers 309 social mentions
Podman Landing Page
2

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions
CRI-O Landing Page
3

CRI-O

Lightweight Container Runtime for Kubernetes
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage #OS & Utilities 17 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
4

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 34 social mentions
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
containerd Landing Page
6

containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage #Storage 45 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
Docker Landing Page
8

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
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Landing Page
9

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
Kubernetes Landing Page
10

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 284 social mentions
Terraform Landing Page
11

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
Helm.sh Landing Page
12

Helm.sh

The Kubernetes Package Manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 135 social mentions