The Best 16 Docker Alternatives

  • Vagrant

    Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD VirtualBox VMware Workstation VMware Fusion

  • Kubernetes

    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Apache Mesos

    Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Panamax

    Panamax is a containerized app creator with an open-source app marketplace hosted in GitHub. Panamax provides a friendly interface for users of Docker, Fleet & CoreOS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Deis

    Deis is an open source PaaS that leverages Docker, CoreOS and Heroku Buildpacks to provide a private application platform that is lightweight and flexible.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Fig

    Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • rkt

    License : Apache License v. 2.0 rkt is the next-generation container manager for Linux clusters.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • FreeBSD Jails

    The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

    Free Open Source BSD FreeBSD DragonFly BSD

  • Stakkr

    Stakkr is a lightweight development environment that relies on docker to deploy and link containers of all types. It can be installed in 3 steps : docker, stakkr then...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Chaperone Process Manager

    Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based...

    Free Open Source Linux Self-Hosted Python

  • Arkose

    Desktop application sandboxing for Linux. It basically lets you start any installed binary in a configurable container. Changes are stored through copy-on-write.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • WinDocks

    WinDocks provides Docker compatible containers on Windows Server 2012, with support for .nET and SQL Server containers, with integrated SQL Server clone and Web UI.

    Commercial Windows