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10 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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