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Top 7 Open-Source Alternatives to VMware

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Amazon AWS OpenStack Docker Kubernetes Amazon ECS Rancher Ansible

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to VMware are Amazon AWS, OpenStack, and Docker. 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.
  1. Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
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    #VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure 486 social mentions

  2. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
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    • Open Source

    #VPS #Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing 2 social mentions

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    Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
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    • Open Source

    #Container Tools #Rapid Application Development #Developer Tools 80 social mentions

  4. Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
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    #DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Containers As A Service 392 social mentions

  5. Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance​ container management service that supports Docker containers.
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    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #DevOps Tools #Developer Tools 60 social mentions

  6. Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
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    #DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery #Developer Tools 25 social mentions

  7. Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
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    • Open Source

    #Configuration Management #Cloud Infrastructure #DevOps Tools 9 social mentions

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