Skopeo Alternatives

Skopeo is described as 'Command line utility that performs various operations on container images and image repositories' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Skopeo for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Flathub apps. The best Skopeo alternative is Docker, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Skopeo are Podman, OrbStack, Pods and containerd.

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    • Docker is Freemium and Open SourceSkopeo is Free and Open Source
    • Docker is LightweightSkopeo is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
  3. OrbStack icon
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    OrbStack is an alternative to Docker Desktop for macOS, designed to offer improved performance for Docker and virtual machines on Linux running on Mac computers. It addresses performance issues that have been experienced in the past, particularly on models with Apple Silicon.

    10 OrbStack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Pods icon
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    Pods is a frontend for podman. It uses libadwaita for its user interface and strives to meet the design principles of GNOME.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. 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
     
  6. Crane icon
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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
     
  7. rkt icon
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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
     
  8. Colima icon
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    Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Minecraft
    • Docker
     
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