Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Podman Desktop

Product categories

Apple Application Builder Cloud Computing Cloud Hosting Cloud Infrastructure Containers As A Service DevOps Tools Developer Tools Kubernetes Productivity Virtual Machine Management Virtualization

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Podman Desktop are Podman, k3s, and Homebrew. 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.

Podman Landing Page
1

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions
k3s Landing Page
2

k3s

K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution by Rancher Labs intended for IoT, Edge, and cloud deployments.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Containers As A Service 159 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
3

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 882 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
4

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
Rancher Landing Page
5

Rancher

Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 24 social mentions
OrbStack Landing Page
6

OrbStack

Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Design Tools #Entertainment #Color Tools 11 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
7

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
UTM Landing Page
8

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 84 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
9

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
#Cloud Computing #Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions
Docker for AWS Landing Page
10

Docker for AWS

Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) for AWS This deployment is fully baked and tested, and comes with the latest Docker Enterprise Edition for AWS. This release is maintained and receives security...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting #DevOps Tools 42 social mentions
Serverspace.io Landing Page
11

Serverspace.io

Serverspace offers automated, simple, and affordable cloud infrastructure to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- $4.95 / Monthly (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 50 Mbps Bandwidth)
#VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 3 social mentions
Kontena Lens Landing Page
12

Kontena Lens

Kontena Lens is an open-source desktop application that comes with a reliable way to manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Cloud Computing 40 social mentions