Docker Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to docker

go

2,068 119,564 10.0 Go docker VS go

The Go programming language
podman

358 21,645 10.0 Go docker VS podman

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Moby

212 67,716 10.0 Go docker VS Moby

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

109 2,273 9.1 Shell docker VS toolbox

Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux (by containers)
runc

32 11,428 9.3 Go docker VS runc

CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification
crun

30 2,787 9.3 C docker VS crun

A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers
asciinema

11 2,204 9.4 Elixir docker VS asciinema

Platform for hosting and sharing terminal session recordings
InfluxDB

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conmon

4 395 7.7 C docker VS conmon

An OCI container runtime monitor.
pq

3 167 4.8 Rust docker VS pq

a command-line Protobuf parser with Kafka support and JSON output (by sevagh)
railcar

2 33 0.0 Rust docker VS railcar

Discontinued RailCar: Rust implementation of the Open Containers Initiative oci-runtime (by drahnr)
storage

5 524 9.7 Go docker VS storage

Container Storage Library (by containers)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better docker alternative or higher similarity.

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Posts with mentions or reviews of docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-11.

Podman: A Daemonless Container Engine
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2021

It is absolutely not correct that Larsson did the lion’s share. What he did was implement a Go wrapper for libdevmapper, which exposes a very low-level API. It is the Docker team that implemented devmapper-based container storage, as well as the whole storage plugin system which was now required to support more than one storage method. The original devmapper lib is utterly undocumented and Larsson’s wrapper did not fix that. So getting that feature to work was an all-consuming task and it is the Docker team that did the bulk of it.
You can see all this from the early history of the devmapper directory: https://github.com/alexlarsson/docker/commits/a14496ce891f1f...