Singularity Alternatives

Singularity is described as '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' and is an app. There are nine alternatives to Singularity for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Singularity alternative is Docker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Singularity are Vagrant, Packer, containerd and Crane.

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  1. Docker icon

    Docker

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    • Docker is Freemium and Open SourceSingularity is Free and Open Source
    • Docker is LightweightSingularity is not according to our users
  2. Vagrant icon

    Vagrant

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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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  4. Packer icon

    Packer

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    Packer is a "source available" tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in...

    5 Packer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
  5. containerd icon

    containerd

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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
     
  6. Crane icon

    Crane

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    Crane is a container image tool that includes building local Docker images; connecting to DockerHub; listing local and remote container images; pushing local images to the DockerHub registry, and importing remote container images into an MLOps platform cluster.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. FreeBSD Jails

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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
     
  9. rkt icon

    rkt

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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
     
  10. Kata Containers icon

    Kata Containers

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    Kata Containers is an open source, secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers, but provide stronger workload isolation using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of defense.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Dockercraft icon

    Dockercraft

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft
    • Docker
     
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