Dockercraft AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Virtualization Tools

The best Virtualization alternative to Dockercraft is Vagrant, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Dockercraft and eight of them are Virtualization Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Virtualization Tool alternatives to Dockercraft are Apache Mesos, FreeBSD Jails, rkt and Stakkr.

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  1. 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...

    18 Vagrant alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware Workstation Pro
    • VMware Fusion
    • FreeBSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Container Virtualization
    2.  Automated provisioning
    3.  Cluster management
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  2. Apache Mesos icon
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    Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    29 Apache Mesos alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Apache Mesos Features

    1.  VPS
    2.  Hypervisor
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  3.  3 likes

    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.

    8 FreeBSD Jails alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • DragonFly BSD

    FreeBSD Jails Features

    1.  Container Virtualization
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     6 likes

    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.

    13 rkt alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    According to their Github page at https://github.com/rkt/rkt, the project has been discontinued. The repository has been archived.

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     2 likes

    Stakkr is a lightweight development environment that relies on docker to deploy and link containers of all types. It can be installed in 3 steps : docker, stakkr then configuration. The config file is very simple and multiple services are included.

    4 Stakkr alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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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.

    6 Arkose alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Arkose Features

    1.  Sandbox
    Discontinued

    No development since 2016, very little activity before that since 2013.

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  7.  1 like

    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.

    10 Chaperone Process Manager alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python

    Chaperone Process Manager Features

    1.  Support for Docker
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    • 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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    plash is a flexible container build and run engine. It supports rootless containers, needs no daemons and runs inside docker.

    9 plash alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    plash Features

    1.  Support for Docker
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