unikernels VS podman

Compare unikernels vs podman and see what are their differences.

unikernels

Unikernel and immutable infrastructures (by cetic)

podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. (by containers)
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unikernels

Posts with mentions or reviews of unikernels. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.
  • Nanos – A Unikernel
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    About unikernels https://github.com/cetic/unikernels?tab=readme-ov-file#unike...
  • Docker is dead?!? Podman - an alternative tool?
    12 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2022
    Another possibility to switch from Docker containers are the so-called Unikernels. These are briefly mentioned here for the sake of completeness, even though they currently have no significance in the Kubernetes context. An interesting blog post on the topic can be found on Hackernoon. It is an interesting construct that may one day find its way into the world of Kubernetes if containers can be replaced by unikernels. Currently, the use of unikernels would not be feasible in my opinion.

podman

Posts with mentions or reviews of podman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unikernels and podman you can also consider the following projects:

nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment

Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

rancher - Complete container management platform

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

singularity - Singularity has been renamed to Apptainer as part of us moving the project to the Linux Foundation. This repo has been persisted as a snapshot right before the changes.