Containerization Tools

Compare 146 containerization tools tools to find the right one for your needs

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vFunction

Modernization Measured.

An AI-driven platform that assesses and refactors monolithic Java and .NET applications into microservices for cloud-native architectures.

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StarWind V2V Converter

Convert VMs and physical machines to virtual format.

A free tool for converting virtual machines from one format to another and for migrating physical machines into virtual environments (P2V).

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Portainer

Container management made simple.

A lightweight management UI for Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Nomad.

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CloudHedge

Automated Application Modernization & Containerization.

A platform that automates the discovery, containerization, and deployment of legacy applications to cloud and Kubernetes environments.

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Portainer

Container management made simple.

A lightweight, open-source management UI that allows you to easily manage your different container environments.

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Qovery

The simplest way to deploy your apps on AWS, Kubernetes and other clouds.

An Internal Developer Platform that helps developers deploy applications on the cloud, often used to migrate from platforms like Heroku to Kubernetes.

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Flagsmith

Open Source Feature Flag & Remote Config Service

An open-source tool that lets you manage feature flags and remote config across web, mobile, and server-side applications.

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KrakenD

The High-Performance API Gateway.

An open-source, high-performance API Gateway with a stateless architecture.

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Unleash

The open source feature flag solution.

An open-source feature management service that gives you a great overview of all feature toggles across your applications.

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Cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Observability, and Security

A cloud-native solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between container workloads, powered by eBPF.

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Flagger

Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes

An open-source, progressive delivery operator that automates canary releases, A/B testing, and blue/green deployments.

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KubeSphere

The enterprise-grade container platform tailored for hybrid multicloud.

An open-source, multi-tenant container platform built on Kubernetes.

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Argo CD

Declarative, GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes.

A GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

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Argo Rollouts

Advanced Kubernetes deployment strategies such as Canary and Blue-Green.

A Kubernetes controller providing advanced deployment capabilities like canary and blue-green deployments for progressive delivery.

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Gloo Edge

The feature-rich, Kubernetes-native, next-generation API Gateway.

An Envoy-based API gateway for Kubernetes, microservices, and monoliths.

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LaunchDarkly

The Feature Management Platform.

A platform for managing feature flags, enabling teams to release new features and migrate systems safely and controllably.

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Solo.io Gloo Platform

Unified API Management and Service Mesh

An integrated platform providing API gateway, service mesh, and cloud-native networking capabilities based on Istio and Envoy.

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Tyk

The open source API management platform.

An open-source API gateway and management platform that is fast, scalable, and modern.

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Kasten K10 by Veeam

The #1 Kubernetes Backup and Disaster Recovery.

A data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, providing enterprise-grade backup/restore, disaster recovery, and application mobility.

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Traefik

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

A modern reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

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Portainer

Container management made simple.

A lightweight, open-source management UI for Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Nomad.

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Zerto

The leader in disaster recovery and data protection.

A platform for disaster recovery, backup, and workload mobility for on-premises and cloud environments.

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Azure Migrate

Simplify your migration and modernization to Azure

A central hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating workloads to Azure, including containerization.

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Rancher

Enterprise Kubernetes Management Platform

An open-source platform for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure.

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HashiCorp Nomad

A simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.

A flexible orchestrator for deploying and managing containers and legacy applications.

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Zerto

The Foundation for a Resilient Business.

A platform for disaster recovery, backup, and workload mobility for on-premises and cloud environments, including Kubernetes.

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Podman

A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

A daemonless alternative to Docker for running containers.

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Secure and managed Kubernetes service

A managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications.

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Helm

The package manager for Kubernetes.

A tool for managing and deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.

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LXC (Linux Containers)

LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.

An OS-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host.

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HashiCorp Consul

Service Networking for Any Runtime, Any Cloud

A service mesh and service discovery tool for multi-cloud environments.

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Linkerd

The ultralight, ultrafast, and ultra-simple service mesh.

A lightweight and security-focused service mesh for Kubernetes.

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Docker

Build, Share, and Run Any App, Anywhere

A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers.

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Kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Rancher

Unified Kubernetes Management.

An open-source platform for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, with features supporting application migration.

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HashiCorp Nomad

A simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.

A flexible orchestrator for deploying applications, not just containers.

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Docker

Build, Share, and Run Any App, Anywhere

A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

The most trusted way to start, run, and scale Kubernetes.

A managed Kubernetes service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

The best way to develop and operate container-based applications

A highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications.

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Rancher

Unified Kubernetes Management

An open-source platform for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure.

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Kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Podman

A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

A daemonless alternative to Docker for running containers and pods.

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Turbonomic

Application Resource Management.

An AI-powered platform that provides application resource management to assure application performance.

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CAST Highlight

Software Intelligence for Application Portfolio Analysis.

A SaaS platform for rapid application portfolio analysis, assessing cloud readiness, open-source risks, and modernization opportunities.

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Secure and reliable Kubernetes service

A managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications.

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HashiCorp Nomad

A simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.

A flexible orchestrator for containers, VMs, and standalone applications.

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CAST Highlight

Portfolio analysis for CIOs and IT leaders.

A software intelligence product for rapid application portfolio analysis, focusing on cloud readiness and modernization.

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Kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes

A managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications in Microsoft Azure.

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Proxmox Virtual Environment

Open-Source Server Virtualization Platform.

An open-source platform that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and Linux Containers (LXC) on a single platform.

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Platform9 Managed Kubernetes

The only Kubernetes platform that runs on any infrastructure and is managed 24/7 by certified experts.

A SaaS-managed Kubernetes platform that works on any infrastructure: on-premises, public cloud, or edge.

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Docker

Accelerate how you build, share, and run modern applications.

A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

The best way to run Kubernetes on Azure

A managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications in Microsoft Azure.

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Rancher

Unified Kubernetes Management

An open-source platform for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure.

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NGINX Service Mesh

Lightweight, Turnkey, and Developer-Friendly

A service mesh from NGINX that is easy to set up and manage.

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Docker

Build, Share, and Run Any App, Anywhere

The leading platform for developing and running applications in containers.

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Kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Traefik Proxy

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

A modern reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy by automatically discovering services.

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Linkerd

The ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.

An ultralight, security-focused, and simple open-source service mesh for Kubernetes.

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Secure and reliable Kubernetes service

A managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications on Google Cloud.

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Traefik

The Cloud Native Application Proxy.

A modern reverse proxy and load balancer.

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NGINX Ingress Controller

The most trusted Ingress controller for Kubernetes.

An implementation of a Kubernetes Ingress Controller using NGINX as the reverse proxy and load balancer.

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Consul

Service Networking for any Cloud or Runtime.

A service mesh and service discovery solution that connects and secures services across any runtime platform and cloud.

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Split.io

The Feature Delivery Platform.

A platform for feature flagging and experimentation, enabling controlled rollouts and data-driven development.

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Secure and reliable platform for running containers at scale

A managed Kubernetes service from Google Cloud.

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Google Cloud API Gateway

Develop, deploy, secure, and manage APIs for any backend

A fully managed service for creating and managing APIs for Google Cloud backends.

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Kuma

The Universal Service Mesh

A platform-agnostic, open-source control plane for service mesh, built on top of Envoy Proxy.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

The most trusted way to start, run, and scale Kubernetes

A managed Kubernetes service from AWS.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

The best way to deploy and manage containerized applications in the cloud

A managed Kubernetes service from Microsoft Azure.

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Harness

The Modern Software Delivery Platform.

An end-to-end platform for intelligent software delivery, including CI/CD, feature flags, and cloud cost management.

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GitLab

The most-comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform

A single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle.

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Emissary-ingress

The Kubernetes-native API Gateway.

A CNCF incubating, open-source API gateway and Ingress controller for Kubernetes, built on Envoy Proxy.

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Google Cloud API Gateway (Apigee)

A comprehensive platform for API management

Google's platform for developing, securing, deploying, and monitoring APIs, offered as Apigee and Apigee X.

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AWS API Gateway

Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

A fully managed service for creating, publishing, and securing APIs for serverless workloads, web applications, and containerized backends.

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Podman

A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

An open-source, daemonless container engine for managing OCI containers and pods.

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Red Hat OpenShift

The enterprise Kubernetes application platform.

A hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes platform to build and deliver better applications faster.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

The best place to run containers in the cloud

A fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications.

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Knative

Kubernetes-based platform to build, deploy, and manage modern serverless workloads.

An open-source framework for building serverless applications on Kubernetes.

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DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)

Simple, managed Kubernetes

A managed Kubernetes service designed for simplicity, developer-friendliness, and cost-effectiveness.

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Red Hat OpenShift

The Enterprise Kubernetes Platform

A hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes platform to build and deliver better applications faster.

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Azure Migrate

Simplify your migration and modernization to Azure.

A central hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises workloads, including applications and databases, to Microsoft Azure.

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TrilioVault for Kubernetes

Cloud-Native Data Protection.

A cloud-native backup and recovery platform that provides data protection, migration, and disaster recovery for Kubernetes applications.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

A fully managed container orchestration service

AWS's native container orchestration service for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.

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Commvault

The Platform for Cyber Resilience.

An enterprise data protection and management platform that provides backup, recovery, and migration for hybrid cloud workloads, including Kubernetes.

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Red Hat OpenShift Migration Tooling

Migrate to Red Hat OpenShift with confidence.

A collection of tools to help plan and execute migrations from traditional infrastructure and older OpenShift versions to the latest Red Hat OpenShift.

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Azure Migrate

Simplify your migration and modernization to Azure.

A central hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises workloads, including VMs, to Azure.

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RackWare Management Module (RMM)

Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery.

A platform that provides automated cloud migration, disaster recovery, and backup for physical and virtual servers.

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Red Hat OpenShift

The Enterprise Kubernetes Platform

A hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes platform to build and deliver better applications faster.

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Kong Gateway

The World's Most Popular API Gateway

A lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway.

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VMware Tanzu Application Platform

A better developer experience on any Kubernetes.

A modular, application-aware platform that provides a rich set of developer tools and a pre-paved path to production to build and deploy software on Kubernetes.

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CloudEndure Migration

Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration.

A former AWS service for lift-and-shift migrations, now largely superseded by AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) but still available in select regions.

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D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP)

Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes for Production Environments

An independent Kubernetes platform that simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes on any infrastructure.

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VMware Tanzu

The modular, cloud native application platform.

A portfolio of products and services to build, run, and manage modern applications on any cloud.

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Istio

An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.

A service mesh that provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices.

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Portworx Backup

Application-aware backup and recovery for Kubernetes.

A Kubernetes backup solution that provides application-aware, granular backup and restore capabilities for any Kubernetes application.

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Velero

Backup and migrate Kubernetes applications and their persistent volumes.

An open-source tool for safely backing up, restoring, and migrating Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

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Spinnaker

The open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform.

An open-source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

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Jenkins

The leading open source automation server

An open-source automation server for building, testing, and deploying software.

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CircleCI

Autonomous validation for the AI era

A cloud-based CI/CD platform for automating software development.

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Azure API Management

A hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments.

A hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs across all environments, acting as a gateway and control plane.

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Apigee

A comprehensive API management platform.

Google Cloud's platform for developing, securing, and managing APIs.

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Istio

An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.

An open-source service mesh that provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices.

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Kong Gateway

The Cloud Native API Platform.

A lightweight, fast, and flexible cloud-native API gateway and ingress controller for Kubernetes and microservices.

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Amazon API Gateway

Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

A fully managed service from AWS for creating, publishing, and managing APIs.

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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

The most secure, flexible, and simple way to run Kubernetes

An enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that was formerly Docker Enterprise Edition.

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Spring Cloud Gateway

A simple, yet effective way to route to APIs.

An open-source API gateway from the Spring team.

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Cloud Foundry

The industry-standard platform for cloud-native applications.

An open-source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a streamlined developer experience for deploying applications.

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AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

Automate and simplify migrating your applications to AWS.

The primary migration service for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. It minimizes downtime by continuously replicating source servers.

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RackWare

Cloud Migration, Disaster Recovery, and Hybrid Cloud Management.

A platform that provides automated migration and disaster recovery for any application from any source to any cloud or data center.

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VMware Tanzu

A modular, cloud native application platform that accelerates development, delivery, and operations across multiple clouds.

A portfolio of products to build, run, and manage modern applications on Kubernetes.

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Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)

A developer-friendly, container-native, and enterprise-ready managed Kubernetes service.

A fully managed, scalable, and highly available service that you can use to deploy your containerized applications to the cloud.

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OpenStack

Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure.

A cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources.

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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

Secure Kubernetes for any infrastructure

An enterprise container platform for building and running modern applications at scale, on-premises or in the cloud.

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PlateSpin Migrate

Anywhere-to-anywhere server migration.

A data center migration tool that automates the process of moving server workloads over the network.

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Apache Mesos

Program against your datacenter like it’s a single pool of resources.

An open-source cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications.

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Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

The enterprise Kubernetes platform for deploying containers at scale.

An enterprise-grade container platform for developing and running modern applications at scale.

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Zuul

An edge service that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, security, and more.

An open-source API gateway from Netflix.

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Travis CI

Simple, Flexible, Trustworthy CI/CD Tools

A hosted continuous integration service for building and testing software projects.

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Carbonite Migrate

Migrate data, applications, or entire servers with minimal risk.

A tool that allows for the migration of physical, virtual, and cloud workloads with minimal downtime.

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Konveyor Move2Kube

Accelerate re-platforming of applications to Kubernetes.

A command-line tool that accelerates the process of re-platforming applications to run on Kubernetes.

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Konveyor Forklift

VM migration at scale.

An open-source tool for migrating virtual machines at scale to KubeVirt on Kubernetes.

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AppScore

Enterprise Digital Experience Agency.

A digital consultancy that provides services including digital strategy, application development, and cloud migration.

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LXC

Linux Containers.

A low-level, flexible container runtime that provides the tools to create and manage system containers.

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containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.

An open-source container runtime that manages the complete container lifecycle.

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Google Cloud Migrate for Anthos and GKE

Modernize traditional applications to containers in Google Kubernetes Engine or Anthos.

A tool to automatically migrate and modernize existing applications to containers.

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Stash by AppsCode

Backup and Restore Kubernetes Stateful Applications.

A cloud-native data backup and recovery solution for Kubernetes that can back up persistent volumes and databases.

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Corent Technology SurPaaS

Master the Cloud.

An end-to-end platform that helps enterprises assess, migrate, and modernize applications to the cloud.

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AWS App2Container

Containerize and migrate existing applications

A command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications.

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VMware Tanzu Transformer

Assess and migrate your vSphere workloads to modern container platforms.

A VMware tool for assessing vSphere workloads and migrating them to VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

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Move2Kube

Automate your migration to Kubernetes.

A command-line tool that accelerates the migration of applications to Kubernetes by automating the creation of containerization artifacts.

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Konveyor

Modernize your applications to Kubernetes

An open-source community project to help modernize and migrate applications to Kubernetes.

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Google Migrate for Anthos and GKE

Modernize traditional applications to containers in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Anthos.

A tool that helps migrate and modernize existing applications from VMs into native containers on Google Cloud.

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Konveyor

An open source community for modernizing applications.

An open-source project that provides a suite of tools to help assess, analyze, and rehost/replatform applications to Kubernetes.

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Google Cloud Migrate to Containers

Modernize traditional applications to containers.

A tool to containerize existing VM-based applications to run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Cloud Run.

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AWS App2Container

Containerize and migrate existing applications to AWS.

A command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications on AWS.

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Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization

Migrate virtual machines at scale to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

A suite of tools to migrate VMs from various sources to run alongside containers in OpenShift Virtualization.

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CloudHedge OmniDeq

Intelligent Application Modernization Platform.

An automated platform for discovering, containerizing, and deploying applications to various cloud environments.

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Apptainer (formerly Singularity)

Container system for High-Performance Computing

An open-source container platform designed for HPC, enterprise, and scientific computing.

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Buildah

A tool that facilitates building OCI container images.

An open-source tool for building OCI-compliant container images without a daemon.

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CRI-O

A lightweight alternative to Docker for Kubernetes

An open-source implementation of the Kubernetes CRI to enable using OCI compatible runtimes.

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UnifyCloud CloudAtlas

Navigate the Journey to the Cloud.

A platform to automate difficult and time-consuming cloud migration and modernization tasks.

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Canonical MicroK8s

The small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge.

A lightweight, CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution designed for workstations, edge, and IoT.

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Incus

A modern, secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager.

A manager for system containers (LXC) and virtual machines (QEMU) that offers a unified, cloud-like experience.

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Skaffold

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

A command-line tool that facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes-native applications.

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Buildpacks

App-to-image without a Dockerfile

A specification for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images.

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Buildah

A tool that facilitates building OCI container images.

A command-line tool for building OCI-compliant container images without a daemon.

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