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12 Useful Free and Open Source Container Managers

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

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

Podman Desktop is a graphical interface that enables application developers to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes.

BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox, a container wrapping layer that lets users install containerised versions of Linux.

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

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

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

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

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

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