Moby VS nerdctl

Compare Moby vs nerdctl and see what are their differences.

Moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems (by moby)

nerdctl

contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ... (by containerd)
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Moby nerdctl
209 32
67,569 7,279
0.5% 2.7%
10.0 9.6
about 17 hours ago 2 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Moby

Posts with mentions or reviews of Moby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-13.

nerdctl

Posts with mentions or reviews of nerdctl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Moby and nerdctl you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

docker-openwrt - OpenWrt running in Docker

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

ofelia - A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)

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