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Docker alternatives

  • Vagrant

  • Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

    tags: cluster-management development ide simplicity virtualization
  • Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers.

    tags: hypervisor operating-system vhd virtual-computer virtual-machine
  • Apache Mesos

  • Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    tags: cluster-manager distributed-system hypervisor operating-system vhd
  • Panamax

  • Panamax is a containerized app creator with an open-source app marketplace hosted in GitHub. Panamax provides a friendly interface for users of Docker, Fleet & CoreOS. With Panamax, you can easily create, share and deploy any no matter how complex it might be.

    tags: app-creator containerized-app operating-system vhd virtual-computer
  • Nanobox

  • Nanobox is the ideal platform for developers.

    tags: automated-deployment cloud-coding dev-ops-setup developer-tools development-tool
  • Deis

  • Deis is an open source PaaS that leverages Docker, CoreOS and Heroku Buildpacks to provide a private application platform that is lightweight and flexible.

    tags: cluster-manager docker hypervisor operating-system paas
  • FreeBSD Jails

  • The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

    tags: container container-virtualization containers freebsd virtualization
  • Spoonium

  • Spoonium allows you to package applications and their dependencies into a lightweight, isolated virtual environment called a "container." Containerized ("Spooned") applications can then be run on any Windows machine that has Spoonium installed, no matter the underlying infrastructure. This eliminates installs, conflicts, breaks, and missing dependencies.

    tags: containerization containers docker hypervisor virtual-machine
  • Chaperone Process Manager

  • Chaperone is a lean init-style startup manager for Docker-like containers. It runs as a single lightweight full-featured process which runs at the root of a docker container tree and provides all of the following functionality, plus much more:

    tags: boot docker init.d service-manager virtualization
  • Arkose

  • Desktop application containers made user friendly.

    tags: developer-tools sandbox virtualization
  • Stakkr

  • A recompose tool that uses docker compose to easily create / maintain a stack of services, for example for web development. Via a configuration file you can setup the required services and let stakkr link and start everything for you. A good and simple alternative to Vagrant !

    tags: development docker-manager elasticsearch environment linux
  • WinDocks

  • Develop and run .NET and SQL Server applications on Windows Server 2012 using Docker commands and Web UI. WinDocks includes support for .NET, all editions of SQL Server 2008, 2012, and 2014, and 2016. Running SQL Server in containers opens up new support for agile and DevOps processes, with the ability to provision a complex containerized application in seconds, and support a dev or test team with separate containers on a shared VM. New in Windocks 2.0 include integrated SQL Server database clone support and Web UI. A free downloadable Community Edition is available at www.windocks.com ยป

    tags: docker sql sql-server windows-server