gvisor VS runtime

Compare gvisor vs runtime and see what are their differences.

gvisor

Application Kernel for Containers (by google)

runtime

Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers). (by kata-containers)
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gvisor runtime
64 4
14,980 2,095
2.7% -
9.9 8.3
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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gvisor

Posts with mentions or reviews of gvisor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-03.

runtime

Posts with mentions or reviews of runtime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gvisor and runtime you can also consider the following projects:

firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

wsl-vpnkit - Provides network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN

kata-containers - Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

sysbox - An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

KubeArmor - Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).

WSL - Issues found on WSL

amicontained - Container introspection tool. Find out what container runtime is being used as well as features available.

for-mac - Bug reports for Docker Desktop for Mac