Skip to content

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Tag: container

OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

12 Useful Free and Open Source Container Managers

October 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

We focus on container managers, software which make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using open containers.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

4 Useful Free and Open Source Distrobox GUI Tools

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Roundup

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges.

Read more
Docker

Pods – manage your Podman containers

November 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Pods is a frontend for Podman, a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Rancher – container management platform

August 25, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Rancher is a container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production.

Read more
Docker

Podman – manage containers and images

August 24, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Podman is a tool for managing containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers.

Read more
Docker

LXD – manage virtual machines and containers

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

LXD is a solution for managing virtual machines and system containers.

Read more
Docker

virt-manager – desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Stakkr – Docker recompose tool

August 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Stakkr is a Docker recompose tool that uses docker compose to easily create / maintain a stack of services, for example for web development.

Read more
Docker

Mesos – cluster manager

August 16, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Incus – modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager

August 15, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Incus is a modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

6 Best Free and Open Source OS-level Virtualization

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A container is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems. Here’s our recommended open source software.

Read more
OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

rkt – application container engine

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

rkt is an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments.

Read more
Coding

Buildah – build OCI container images

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Buildah is a tool that facilitates building Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images.

Read more

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Sam on 7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools
  • Torin Doyle on LeenFetch – system information tool
  • Nester on Garuda Linux – gaming distro based on Arch Linux
  • Steve Emms on Gopher2600 – emulator for the Atari 2600
  • Torin Doyle on Gopher2600 – emulator for the Atari 2600
  • Steve Emms on BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Introduction to the Series
  • martin on BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Introduction to the Series
  • kilo on mommy – support tool
  • james stanely on TUISIC – simple TUI online music streaming software
  • Juan on HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • kapp – simple deployment tool
  • LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
  • Mint – programming language for the front-end web
  • kcaldav – simple, safe, and minimal CalDAV server
  • 7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches
  • Fortress – file explorer with git niceties
  • 9 Best Free and Open Source Functions-as-a-Service
  • MangoWC – Wayland compositor
  • prmt – ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt generator
  • CSSOM – CSS parser

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2025: Designed by LinuxLinks.