5 Alternatives to Docker Desktop

1. podman

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   Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

   

   Podman (Pod Manager) is probably one of the most famous alternatives to Docker Desktop. It's an open-source container management tool that offers a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux systems.

2. InfluxDB

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3. nerdctl

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

   

   Rancher Desktop allows you to choose between the Moby engine (offered by Continered) and the dockerd engine (offered by Docker) for building, pushing, and running containers. Compared with Docker Desktop, which provides Docker CLI as a CLI tool, Rancher provides both kubectl and nerdctl for managing Kubernetes and containers, respectively.

4. Moby

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

   

   Rancher Desktop allows you to choose between the Moby engine (offered by Continered) and the dockerd engine (offered by Docker) for building, pushing, and running containers. Compared with Docker Desktop, which provides Docker CLI as a CLI tool, Rancher provides both kubectl and nerdctl for managing Kubernetes and containers, respectively.

5. kubernetes

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   Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

   

   Rancher Desktop is another open-source alternative to Docker Desktop that provides a simplified, integrated development environment for container management and Kubernetes clusters. Developed by Rancher Labs (a subsidiary of SUSE), Rancher Desktop aims to streamline container development workflows on Mac, Windows, and Linux by combining the benefits of Docker and Kubernetes in a user-friendly interface. One interesting fact is that both Kubernetes and Rancher Desktop use the same container runtime.

6. Docker Compose

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   Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

   

   Docker containers are lightweight, stand-alone, and executable packages that include everything needed to run a piece of software. Their main focus is to isolate different applications and their dependencies to enable portability. On the other hand, Docker Desktop is an application designed to provide developers with a seamless environment for creating, managing, and orchestrating Docker containers. It includes a graphical user interface (GUI), Docker CLI, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes integration, simplifying the development and testing of containerized applications locally.

7. cri-o

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   Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface

   

   Minikube supports various container runtimes, including Docker, containerd, and CRI-O, allowing flexibility in the development environment.

8. containerd

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   An open and reliable container runtime

   

   Containerd is an open-source project originally created by Docker Inc. and is now a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is a container runtime that's part of the Docker ecosystem, but it can also be used as a stand-alone. It's designed to handle the execution and lifecycle management of containers and provides a robust and reliable runtime that can be embedded into higher-level systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, and other container orchestration platforms.

9. SaaSHub

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