LXC/LXD alternatives

Chainguard provides hardened container images and a software supply chain security platform for building and shipping safer modern applications.

groundcover helps engineering teams observe Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud-native systems with a modern performance and cost posture.

Northflank is a cloud application platform for deploying services, jobs, databases, and internal tooling with a more productized platform experience.

Aikido Security brings together code, cloud, dependency, and runtime security workflows in a more approachable platform for modern engineering teams.

Depot provides remote container build infrastructure that makes Docker image builds up to 40x faster with persistent caching, native multi-platform support, and simple CI/CD integration.

Anchore provides container security and software supply chain compliance tools that help organizations enforce security policies for container images throughout the development pipeline.

Open source graphical desktop application for managing containers and Kubernetes pods across multiple container engines.

FluxCD is a GitOps toolkit for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration sources like Git repositories and OCI artifacts.

Daemonless container engine for developing and managing OCI containers and pods on Linux systems without requiring root privileges.

Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes from Canonical for developers and DevOps that installs in seconds and clusters instantly.

Linode (now Akamai Cloud Computing) offers simple, affordable cloud infrastructure including virtual machines, Kubernetes, object storage, and managed databases.

AccuKnox provides zero-trust runtime security for containers and Kubernetes using eBPF-powered monitoring and dynamic policy enforcement.

Open source toolkit for managing Kubernetes native applications called operators with SDK and lifecycle manager.

Fast, lightweight Docker Desktop alternative for macOS with native Docker and Linux VM support.

Hyperconverged Kubernetes platform combining bare-metal compute, storage, and networking for enterprise stateful apps.

Managed Kubernetes platform for enterprises providing cluster lifecycle management across multi-cloud environments.

Load-balancer implementation for bare-metal Kubernetes clusters using standard routing protocols.

Cloud native management plane for service meshes providing lifecycle, configuration, and performance management.

Tool that facilitates building OCI container images without requiring a full container runtime or daemon to be running.

Desktop version of Rancher delivering Kubernetes and container management on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

CLI tool for building, releasing, and operating containerized applications on AWS ECS and Fargate.

Kubernetes virtualization API and runtime for managing virtual machines alongside container workloads.

Sysdig provides container and cloud security with runtime insights.

Open source tool for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and migration of Kubernetes cluster resources.