Crane Alternatives

Apps similar to Crane include Docker, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Podman, Docker Desktop, Lazydocker and Packer. You can choose from more than 10 Docker Managers like Crane for Linux, Mac, Windows, self-hosting and the web.

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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.

    42 Docker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • TrueNAS
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  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.

    16 Podman alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Red Hat
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    Manage containers. Part 1 of 3. Supported engines and orchestrators include Podman, Docker, Lima, kind, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Developer Sandbox.
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  3. Docker Desktop icon
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    Docker Desktop is a one-click-install application that lets you to build, share, and run containerized applications and microservices.

    35 Docker Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Lazydocker icon
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    Memorising docker commands is hard. Memorising aliases is slightly less hard. Keeping track of your containers across multiple terminal windows is near impossible. What if you had all the information you needed in one terminal window with every common command living one keypress...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  5. Packer icon
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    Packer is a "source available" tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
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  6. Yacht icon
     7 likes

    A web interface for managing docker containers with an emphasis on templating to provide 1 click deployments. Yacht is a flask based container management UI with a focus on templates and 1-click deployments.

    25 Yacht alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. CRI-O icon
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    CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) to enable using OCI (Open Container Initiative) compatible runtimes. It is a lightweight alternative to using Docker as the runtime for kubernetes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. Singularity icon
     10 likes

    Singularity is a container solution with a focus on building reproducible software stacks and running them most efficiently on existing HPC, scientific, compute farm and even enterprise architectures.

    10 Singularity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Gefyra icon
     7 likes

    Gefyra gives Kubernetes-(“cloud-native”)-developers a completely new way of writing and testing their applications. Gone are the times of custom docker-compose setups, Vagrants, custom scripts or other scenarios in order to develop (micro-)services for Kubernetes.

    Cost / License

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

    11 Skopeo alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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    Isaiah is a self-hostable service that enables you to manage all your Docker resources on a remote server. It is an attempt at recreating the Lazydocker command-line application from scratch, while making it available as a web application without compromising on the features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  12. The aim of this project is to provide a minimal HTTP API on top of Docker Compose while maintaining full interoperability with Docker Compose CLI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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