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Docker Engine

At the center of Docker's container platform, Docker Engine builds and runs containers from application images. An image...

Linux Docker Runtime Containers

9.25 Excellent

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containerd

Containerd is an open-source container runtime designed to manage container lifecycles efficiently. It provides a founda...

Docker Kubernetes Runtime Oci

8.95 Great

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Solaris Zones

Solaris Zones provide isolated application environments within the Solaris operating system. Standard non-global zones h...

Oracle Unix Containers Solaris

8.87 Great

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runc

Working close to the Linux kernel, runc creates and runs containers described by the Open Container Initiative runtime s...

Linux Runtime Low Level Containers

8.85 Great

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Podman

Podman provides a runtime environment for creating and executing containerized applications based on Open Container Init...

Runtime Red Hat Containers Oci

8.55 Great

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CNCF Distribution

CNCF Distribution provides a reliable, up-to-date source for container runtime components and related open-source softwa...

Open Source Registry Current Oci

8.55 Great

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Falco

Falco is an open-source runtime security project designed to protect containerized applications. It monitors system call...

Security Runtime Detection Containers

8.48 Great

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Wasmtime

Wasmtime is a runtime environment specifically built for executing WebAssembly (Wasm) code. It provides a secure sandbox...

Sandbox Runtime Wasm Containers

8.41 Great

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Moby

Moby represents an open source containerization platform built around an engine designed for efficient application deplo...

Engine Open Source Docker Platform

8.36 Great

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crun

Crun is a container runtime designed for Red Hat’s OCI Runtime project. It leverages the runc kernel compatibility layer...

Runtime Red Hat Containers Oci Runtime

8.35 Great

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Apptainer

Apptainer provides a secure and portable way to run Linux containers, particularly for high-performance computing (HPC)...

Linux Hpc Runtime Scientific

8.20 Great

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kaniko

Kaniko facilitates building container images directly within Kubernetes clusters or similar environments. It achieves th...

Kubernetes Daemonless Past Image Build

8.15 Great

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LXC

LXC is an open source containerization technology built upon Linux. It offers efficient system-container virtualization...

Legacy Open Source Linux Runtime

8.10 Great

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SingularityCE

SingularityCE provides a containerization runtime primarily for Linux systems. It facilitates reproducible scientific co...

Linux Hpc Runtime Scientific

8.05 Great

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ORAS

ORAS is a containerization platform leveraging Kubernetes to manage applications across diverse environments. It offers...

CLI Artifacts Registry Current

8.05 Great

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Sysdig Secure

Sysdig Secure offers comprehensive security monitoring specifically designed for containerized applications. It delivers...

Security Enterprise Runtime Containers

8.04 Great

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Kata Containers

Kata Containers is an open-source project that provides a secure container runtime utilizing lightweight virtual machine...

Secure Runtime Oci Cncf

7.65 Good

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youki

Youki is an open-source container runtime written in the Rust programming language that serves as an alternative to runC...

Rust Linux Runtime Containers

7.28 Good

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rkt

Rkt (pronounced "rocket") was a coreOS project providing an alternative to Docker for running lightweight containers usi...

Legacy Runtime Past Coreos

6.82 Fair

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Krustlet

Krustlet is an open-source tool enabling developers to package any application—regardless of language or framework—into...

Kubernetes Webassembly Runtime Wasm

5.74 Mediocre