Free OpenShift Alternatives

The best free alternative to OpenShift is Kubernetes, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to OpenShift and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to OpenShift are Rancher, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Google App Engine and Laravel Cloud.

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  1. Rancher icon
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    Rancher is an open source container management platform built for organizations that deploy containers in production. Rancher makes it easy to run Kubernetes everywhere, meet IT requirements, and empower DevOps teams.

    37 Rancher alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  3. Google App Engine is a free* platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. App Engine offers fast development and deployment; simple administration, with no need to worry about hardware, patches or backups; and effortless scalability.

    60 Google App Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Laravel Cloud icon
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    Effortlessly deploy and scale Laravel apps without server management. Enjoy built-in autoscaling, caching, and enterprise-grade security. Start quickly in under 60 seconds with zero configuration, access logs, metrics, and more. Manage multiple environments and team collaboration seamlessly.

    64 Laravel Cloud alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Rancher Desktop is an open-source desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux. It provides Kubernetes and container management. You can choose the version of Kubernetes you want to run. You can build, push, pull, and run container images.

    47 Rancher Desktop alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Kubero icon
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    Kubero is a fully self-hosted Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that brings the workflows of Heroku to your Kubernetes cluster. It enables you to deploy your applications with a few clicks on the Dashboard or by CLI.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
     
  7. Cycle.io icon
     5 likes

    Cycle is the leading LowOps platform built to simplify containers, standardize infrastructure, and automate DevOps. Deploy to your own infrastructure whether it's in the cloud, on-prem, or a mixture of both. The power of Kubernetes, without Kubernetes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Cycle.io vs OpenShift Comments
    Lexi
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    Cycle is the best container orchestration platform. It simplifies the processes around container and infrastructure deployments.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cycle.io is Freemium and ProprietaryOpenShift is Freemium and Open Source
  8. Cloudify icon
     31 likes

    Cloudify is an orchestration-first, model-driven cloud management platform native to Network function virtualization (NFV), that is open source and based on the TOSCA standard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Cloudify vs OpenShift Comments
    ilanad
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    It's capable of more complex handling of applications.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cloudify is Free and Open SourceOpenShift is Freemium and Open Source
  9. Aiven icon
     1 like

    One unified platform to stream, store, and serve data on any cloud.

    Aiven is a versatile platform empowering you with AI-driven workload optimization and control over your data. Deploy widely adopted technologies across multiple clouds with just a few clicks to stream, store, an.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Python
    • Homebrew
    • Linux
     
  10. CAST AI icon
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    Multiple clouds. One cluster. All the benefits combined. CAST AI lets you combine the benefits from multiple cloud providers in any way you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Kubernetes
    • elasticsearch
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Kibana
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
     
  11. Cloud 66 icon
     24 likes

    Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with “server stuff”.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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