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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.

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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.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Podman Desktop – graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

November 21, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

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

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

BoxBuddy – graphical manager for Distrobox

October 22, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

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

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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.

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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.

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Docker

LXD – manage virtual machines and containers

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Coding

Woodpecker – simple yet powerful CI/CD engine

May 12, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

Woodpecker is a simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility. Woodpecker uses docker containers to execute pipeline steps.

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Coding

Dagger – powerful, programmable CI/CD engine

May 9, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

Dagger is software that lets you replace your software project’s artisanal scripts with a modern API and cross-language scripting engine.

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Coding

Earthly – CI/CD framework that runs every pipeline inside containers

May 7, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Earthly is a versatile, approachable CI/CD framework that runs every pipeline inside containers.

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Coding

Kubernetes – container orchestration engine

January 2, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Distrobox – use Linux distributions in your terminal

May 17, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software

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

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Docker

Getting Started with Docker: Dry – interactive CLI for Docker containers

November 16, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Software

Dry is a terminal application to manage and monitor Docker containers. It’s free and open source software.

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Portainer

Getting Started with Docker: Portainer CE

November 9, 2021 Steve Emms Tutorials

Portainer Community Edition offers an easy way to manage Docker containers.

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Docker

Getting Started with Docker: Docker Images

November 7, 2021 Steve Emms Tutorials

A Docker image is a file used to execute code in a Docker container.

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