Dockercraft AlternativesVirtualization Tools and other similar apps like Dockercraft

Dockercraft is described as 'Docker + Minecraft = Dockercraft. Contribute to docker/dockercraft development by creating an account on GitHub' and is a Virtualization tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Dockercraft for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and FreeBSD apps. The best Dockercraft alternative is Podman, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dockercraft are Vagrant, Apache Mesos, FreeBSD Jails and rkt.

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  1. 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
     
    • Podman is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Dockercraft.

    • Podman is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Dockercraft.

    • Podman is Free and Open SourceDockercraft is also Free and Open Source
  2. Vagrant icon
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    Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes...

    21 Vagrant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware Workstation Pro
    • VMware Fusion
    • FreeBSD
     
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    The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
     
  4. rkt icon
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    rkt is the next-generation container manager for Linux clusters. Designed for security, simplicity, and composability within modern cluster architectures, rkt discovers, verifies, fetches, and executes application containers with pluggable isolation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. 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.

    7 CRI-O alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Nebula container orchestrator aims to help devs and ops treat IoT devices just like distributed Dockerized apps. It aim is to act as Docker orchestrator for IoT devices as well as for distributed services that can span thousands of devices worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Singularity icon
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    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.

    9 Singularity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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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    The Turbo.net Client allows you to package apps and their dependencies into a lightweight, isolated virtual environment called a "container." Containerized apps can be run on any machine that has the appropriate Turbo.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPad
     
    • Turbo.net Client is the most popular Android & iPad alternative to Dockercraft.

    • Turbo.net Client is Freemium and ProprietaryDockercraft is Free and Open Source
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    Desktop application sandboxing for Linux. It basically lets you start any installed binary in a configurable container. Changes are stored through copy-on-write.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Chaperone is a lightweight alternative to process environment managers like systemd or upstart. Chaperone provides an extensive feature set, including dependency-based startup, syslog logging, zombie harvesting, and job scheduling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • Chaperone Process Manager is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Dockercraft.

    • Chaperone Process Manager is Free and Open SourceDockercraft is also Free and Open Source
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