Best Container Engine Software in 2024

8.2

★★★★★

rkt

rkt is an open source container runtime designed for composability, security, and speed.

Rocket is a project to definitely watch - Manil C.

Ease of use

8.1

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8.1

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7.5

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8.8

★★★★★

Docker hub

Docker hub is a Dev-test pipeline automation with 100,000+ free apps, public and private registries.

Docker - Feature-rich container - Jimesh S.

Ease of use

8.4

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8.8

Ease of Setup

7.0

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9.0

★★★★★

StorageOS

StorageOS is a software-based decentralized storage platform designed to provider persistent container storage.

Great container-native solution for replacing a previous NFS deployment - Lucian T.

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9.4

★★★★★

Canonical 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.

Usefull and takes less time to configure - Mahesh I.

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8.6

★★★★★

Solaris Zones

Oracle Solaris 11.3 is an advanced enterprise operating system. It delivers security, speed, and simplicity for enterprise cloud environments and DevOps.

Containers of the Oracle Solaris OS - Marcel H.

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8.6

★★★★★

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute

Compute options range from VMs to GPUs to bare metal servers, and includes options for dense I/O workloads, high performance computing (HPC), and AMD EPYC processors.

Oracle cloud infrastructure compute - Faisal N.

Ease of use

8.9

Support

8.4

Ease of Setup

8.9

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8.4

★★★★★

OpenVZ

OpenVZ is a container-based virtualization for Linux that creates multiple secure, isolated Linux containers (otherwise known as VEs or VPSs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict.

System admin with 6 years experience with openvz, daily user - Jayakrishnan A.

Ease of use

8.4

Support

8.2

Ease of Setup

7.8

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9.0

★★★★★

Canonical LXD

Canonical LXD is a next generation system container manager.It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead.It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API.

Middle ground for those who need monolithic systems with the performance of containers - Mike B.

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8.4

★★★★★

Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that distributes resources across applications and databases.

Handle your cluster as if it were a single machine - Pablo Francisco P.

Ease of use

7.4

Support

8.3

Ease of Setup

6.8

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8.4

★★★★★

CoreOS

CoreOS provide a software that securely run application containers anywhere.

CoreOs is secure consistent and reliable and the best feature is the ease of running containers - Snigdha Sambit A.

Ease of use

7.2

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8.2

Ease of Setup

7.3

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9.0

★★★★★

Sandboxie

Sandboxie uses isolation technology to separate programs from your underlying operating system preventing unwanted changes from happening to your personal data, programs and applications that rest safely on your hard drive.

Sandboxie, programa para tener varias cuentas o segunda instancia abierta. - Lissa B.

Ease of use

9.3

Support

8.8

Ease of Setup

0.0

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8.4

★★★★★

runc

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

runc is docker - David L.

Ease of use

8.7

Support

8.3

Ease of Setup

8.2

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9.0

★★★★★

Garden

Garden is the component that Cloud Foundry uses to create and manage isolated environments called containers. Each instance of an application deployed to Cloud Foundry runs within a container. For more information about how containers work, see the Container Mechanics section of the Understanding Container Security topic.

Great platform with A+ cust service team - User in Marketing and Advertising

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8.0

★★★★★

Canonical MicroK8s

MicroK8s is pure upstream Kubernetes, not a subset.We keep it small with sensible choices that just work. That makes a quick install, with easy upgrades and great security — and leaves your options open later.

Microk8s for Edge - User in Computer Software

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10.0

★★★★★

OCI

The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is comprised of a diverse set of members that are committed to creating an open industry standard around a container image format and runtime backed by a certification program.

Easy to use with a very predictable outcome - Executive Sponsor in Information Technology and Services

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10.0

★★★★★

FreeBSD Jails

Jails can now have the amount of memory available to their processes' resident sets (RSS) CPU limiting is implemented by giving each jail a number of CPU shares and tracking the estimated CPU usage of the tasks that run in that jail

Jails Make Your Life Easy - Kaycie S.

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10.0