Rancher Desktop Alternatives

Rancher Desktop is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rancher Desktop for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Docker apps. The best Rancher Desktop alternative is Portainer. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Portainer or Arcane - Docker Management UI. Other great apps like Rancher Desktop are Coolify, Cloudron, Dockpeek and OpenShift.

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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
     
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    OpenFaaS® makes it easy for developers to deploy event-driven functions and microservices to Kubernetes without repetitive, boiler-plate coding. Package your code or an existing binary in a Docker image to get a highly scalable endpoint with auto-scaling and metrics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    A familiar desktop graphical interface for the free and open container manager - Podman.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    Mesosphere DCOS organizes your entire infrastructure as if it was a single computer. It runs all your apps and workloads, from PaaS-based microservices to big data to databases.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    Vamp, or the Very Awesome Microservices Platform, takes the pain out of running complex and critical service based architectures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    DockStation is a developer-centric application for managing projects based on Docker. Instead of lots of CLI commands you can monitor, configure, and manage services and containers while using just a GUI.

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    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Imixs-Cloud is an open lightweight docker based container environment for business applications. The main objectives of this project are simplicity, transparency and operational readiness. Imixs-Cloud is based on a docker swarm.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Kublr offers enterprise-grade secure, scalable, highly reliable Kubernetes clusters on AWS, Azure, GCP, vSphere, and on-premise. It includes out-of-the-box multi-cluster centralized Kubernetes operations, monitoring, and other enterprise features.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Kublr is the most popular commercial alternative to Rancher Desktop.

    • Kublr is Paid and ProprietaryRancher Desktop is Free and Open Source
    • Kublr is CustomizableRancher Desktop is not according to our users
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    WhaleDeck is your all-in-one Docker environment manager. Reduce complexity and stay productive with a visual dashboard that centralizes performance metrics, container logs, and actions across multiple servers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • WhaleDeck is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Rancher Desktop.

    • WhaleDeck is Freemium and ProprietaryRancher Desktop is Free and Open Source
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    BuildPiper is an end-to-end Kubernetes & Microservices Application Delivery Platform that enables dockerized code to be deployed across environments and enables seamless management of Production operations.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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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
     
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    Kubernetes-based platform to deploy and manage modern serverless workloads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
     
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