There are many alternatives to Docker for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Podman. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Docker and five of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to Docker are BitNami Application Stacks, Singularity, Crane and Monty - Python Interpreter.
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.
Drop-in replacement without the license restrictions of Docker
BitNami Stacks make it incredibly easy to deploy your favorite open source software. BitNami Stacks include an open source application and all of the other software necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.
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.
Lightweight, very easy to setup. Moving containers between servers is as easy as copying a file.
Crane is a container image tool that includes building local Docker images; connecting to DockerHub; listing local and remote container images; pushing local images to the DockerHub registry, and importing remote container images into an MLOps platform cluster.
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Same syntax, runs without socket, more secure