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What are the best Linux container management systems?
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Best Linux container management systems
Price
Platforms
License
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Docker
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Kubernetes
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Rancher
Free / paid
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OpenShift
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Apache 2.0
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Rocket
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Docker
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ommendation
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Docker
My Recommendation for
Docker
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15
Pros
11
Cons
3
Specs
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Pro
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Provides easy sharing and installation of containers through a public registry
Docker allows easily pushing and pulling containers to and from their public index.docker.io registry. Additionally, dotCloud maintains a list of official repositories of the more popular containers.
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Security concerns
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
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Application-centric
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Con
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Large image size
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Allows re-using components
Docker essentially allows creating boilerplate systems (a LAMP stack, for example) that can be used as a starting point on multiple projects. And you can find multiple such containers already created by people in their public registry.
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Con
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Kernel OS fragmentation
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Low overhead
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Automatic build
Allows automatically assembling a container from its source code.
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Allows for portable application deployment
Docker creates a single object, containing an application with its dependencies, that can be moved between any docker-enabled machines, guaranteeing the same environment for application execution.
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Supports a wide range of isolation tools
Docker can be used with OpenVZ, systemd-nspawn, libvirt-lxc, libvirt-sandbox, qemu/kvm, BSD Jails, Solaris Zones, and chroot.
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Git-like capabilities
Docker tracks changes in systems. It allows for commits and rollbacks and for quick deployment due to having to deploy only the updated code.
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Tool ecosystem
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Works in virtualized environments
You can set up Docker within an already virtualized environment such as a virtual machine. This allows you to run Docker on Mac and Windows, among other use-cases.
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Simplifies application testing 
Can run your project with the exact same binaries on your machine, and without having to install tons of applications.
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Kubernetes
My Rec
ommendation
for
Kubernetes
My Recommendation for
Kubernetes
All
2
Pros
1
Cons
1
Top
Pro
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Easy to take your Docker containers to production
Kubernetes will give you a great, vendor agnostic way to orchestrate your Docker containers in dev, staging and production with ease!
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Con
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Missing built in easy monitoring
You need to add the monitoring and dash-boarding yourself. It would be nice to get it out of the box as one of the services (some of which are already installed).
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Rancher
My Rec
ommendation
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Rancher
My Recommendation for
Rancher
All
6
Pros
5
Cons
1
Top
Pro
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Web GUI cluster management
Intuitive and easy to use web GUI.
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Con
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Logging system
For admin analysis what is happening with each deployment template (service or stack).
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Pro
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Self-service application stack for self-monitoring
Great contributions from the co community who build the service stack catalog. One of them is the "Prometheus" template which deploys a collection of containers for monitoring a platform. It's capable of querying all aspects of your environment with some nice pre-built dashboards.
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Service catalog is easy
Rancher provides a catalog of application templates that make it easy to deploy complex stacks. Rancher certified catalog Community service catalog
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Pro
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Access control polices
Detailed role-based access control policies can be defined independently for each cluster.
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Mult-environment cluster system
Cattle (Rancher default) Swarm Kubernetes Mesos
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OpenShift
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ommendation
for
OpenShift
My Recommendation for
OpenShift
All
1
Specs
Specs
License:
Apache 2.0
Price:
Free (Online, Origin), 43,000$ (Dedicated), 50.00$/month (Online Pro)
Versioning:
Follows Kubernetes Versioning
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Rocket
My Rec
ommendation
for
Rocket
My Recommendation for
Rocket
All
1
Cons
1
Top
Con
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Project is archived
Along with the end of the former parent project CoreOS, rkt has also officially declared end of project. See https://github.com/rkt/rkt/issues/4024
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