Colima Alternatives

Colima is described as 'Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup' and is an app in the development category. There are four alternatives to Colima for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted and Raspberry Pi apps. The best Colima alternative is Docker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Colima are Podman, Skopeo and Kata Containers.

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  1. Docker icon
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    Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

    29 Docker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • TrueNAS
     
    • Docker is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Colima.

    • Docker is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Colima.

    • Docker is Freemium and Open SourceColima is Free and Open Source
    • Docker is LightweightColima is not according to our users
  2. Podman icon
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    Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes.

    11 Podman alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Red Hat
     
  3. Skopeo icon
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    Skopeo is a command line utility that performs various operations on container images and image repositories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
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    Kata Containers is an open source, secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers, but provide stronger workload isolation using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of defense.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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