rkt AlternativesVirtualization Tools and other similar apps like rkt

rkt is described as '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' and is a Virtualization tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to rkt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Minecraft apps. The best rkt alternative is Docker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rkt are Flatpak, Podman, containerd and AppImageKit.

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  1. Docker icon
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    Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

    29 Docker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • TrueNAS
     
    • Docker is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to rkt.

    • Docker is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to rkt.

    • Docker is Freemium and Open Sourcerkt is Free and Open Source
    • Docker is Lightweightrkt is not according to our users
  2. Flatpak icon
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    Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including...

    29 Flatpak alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. containerd icon
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    An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. AppImageKit icon
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    Using AppImageKit you can package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and derivatives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Koca icon
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    The universal build, package, and publishing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
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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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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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    plash is a flexible container build and run engine. It supports rootless containers, needs no daemons and runs inside docker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. Dockercraft icon
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    Docker + Minecraft = Dockercraft. Contribute to docker/dockercraft development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft
    • Docker
     
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