nerdctl VS genie

Compare nerdctl vs genie and see what are their differences.

nerdctl

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

genie

A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL (by arkane-systems)
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nerdctl genie
32 13
7,279 1,853
2.7% -0.1%
9.6 0.0
1 day ago over 1 year ago
Go Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

genie

Posts with mentions or reviews of genie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

WSL - Issues found on WSL

wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.

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

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

kaniko - Build Container Images In Kubernetes

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

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

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

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

buildkit - concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit