What are Container Engines?

Container engines are software platforms that facilitate the creation, deployment, and management of containers in a computing environment. Containers are lightweight, portable, and consistent units of software that include everything needed to run an application, such as the code, libraries, and system tools. Container engines enable developers to package and isolate applications in a way that allows them to run uniformly across different environments, making them ideal for cloud, microservices, and DevOps workflows. These engines typically support features like container orchestration, scalability, resource management, and container lifecycle management. Compare and read user reviews of the best Container Engines currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Red Hat OpenShift
    The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies. Support the most demanding workloads including AI/ML, Java, data analytics, databases, and more. Automate deployment and life-cycle management with our vast ecosystem of technology partners.
    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides fast, flexible, and affordable compute capacity to fit any workload need from performant bare metal servers and VMs to lightweight containers. OCI Compute provides uniquely flexible VM and bare metal instances for optimal price-performance. Select exactly the number of cores and the memory your applications need. Delivering high performance for enterprise workloads. Simplify application development with serverless computing. Your choice of technologies includes Kubernetes and containers. NVIDIA GPUs for machine learning, scientific visualization, and other graphics processing. Capabilities such as RDMA, high-performance storage, and network traffic isolation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure consistently delivers better price performance than other cloud providers. Virtual machine-based (VM) shapes offer customizable core and memory combinations. Customers can optimize costs by choosing a specific number of cores.
    Starting Price: $0.007 per hour
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    Turbo

    Turbo

    Turbo.net

    Turbo lets you publish and manage all of your enterprise applications from a single point to every platform and device. Book a demo with our team to see Turbo in action. Deploy custom containerized applications on desktops, on-premises servers, and public and private clouds. The student digital workspace brings applications to every campus and personal device. Deliver applications everywhere from a single, configurable container environment. Freely migrate between devices and platforms with rich APIs and connectors. Deploy to managed and BYOD PCs with no installs. Stream to HTML5, Mac, and mobile with Turbo Application Server. Publish to existing Citrix and VMware VDI environments. Dynamically image applications onto non-persistent WVD instances. Bring course applications directly inside Canvas, Blackboard, and other major LMS systems. Authoring environment for creating your own containerized applications and components.
    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) provides simple, flexible, and scalable container orchestration and enterprise container management. Use Kubernetes, Swarm, or both, and experience the fastest time to production for modern applications across any environment. Enterprise container orchestration Avoid lock-in. Run Mirantis Kubernetes Engine on bare metal, or on private or public clouds—and on a range of popular Linux distributions. Reduce time-to-value. Hit the ground running with out-of-the-box dependencies including Calico for Kubernetes networking and NGINX for Ingress support. Leverage open source. Save money and maintain control by using a full stack of open source-based technologies that are production-proven, scalable, and extensible. Focus on apps—not infrastructure. Enable your IT team to focus on building business-differentiating applications when you couple Mirantis Kubernetes Engine with OpsCare Plus for a fully-managed K8s experience.
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    rkt

    rkt

    Red Hat

    rkt is an application container engine developed for modern production cloud-native environments. It features a pod-native approach, a pluggable execution environment, and a well-defined surface area that makes it ideal for integration with other systems. The core execution unit of rkt is the pod, a collection of one or more applications executing in a shared context (rkt's pods are synonymous with the concept in the Kubernetes orchestration system). rkt allows users to apply different configurations (like isolation parameters) at both pod-level and at the more granular per-application level. rkt's architecture means that each pod executes directly in the classic Unix process model (i.e. there is no central daemon), in a self-contained, isolated environment. rkt implements a modern, open, standard container format, the App Container (appc) spec, but can also execute other container images, like those created with Docker.
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    Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
    Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is an Oracle-managed container orchestration service that can reduce the time and cost to build modern cloud native applications. Unlike most other vendors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides Container Engine for Kubernetes as a free service that runs on higher-performance, lower-cost compute shapes. DevOps engineers can use unmodified, open source Kubernetes for application workload portability and to simplify operations with automatic updates and patching. Deploy Kubernetes clusters including the underlying virtual cloud networks, internet gateways, and NAT gateways with a single click. Automate Kubernetes operations with web-based REST API and CLI for all actions including Kubernetes cluster creation, scaling, and operations. Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes does not charge for cluster management. Easily and quickly upgrade container clusters, with zero downtime, to keep them up to date with the latest stable version of Kubernetes.
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    MicroK8s

    MicroK8s

    Canonical

    Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes, for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT. MicroK8s automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore. When you lose a cluster database node, another node is promoted. No admin needed for your bulletproof edge. MicroK8s is small, with sensible defaults that ‘just work’. A quick install, easy upgrades and great security make it perfect for micro clouds and edge computing. Full enterprise support available, with no subscription needed. Optional 24/7 support with 10 year security maintenance. Under the cell tower. On the racecar. On satellites or everyday appliances, MicroK8s delivers the full Kubernetes experience on IoT and micro clouds. Fully containerized deployment with compressed over-the-air updates for ultra-reliable operations. MicroK8s will apply security updates automatically by default, defer them if you want. Upgrade to a newer version of Kubernetes with a single command. It’s really that easy.
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    Oracle Solaris
    We’ve been designing the OS for for more than two decades, always ensuring that we’ve engineered in features to meet the latest market trends while maintaining backward compatibility. Our Application Binary Guarantee gives you the ability to run your newest and legacy applications on modern infrastructure. Integrated lifecycle management technologies allow you to issue a single command to update your entire cloud installation—clear down to the firmware and including all virtualized environments. One large financial services company saw a 16x efficiency gain by managing its virtual machines (VMs) using Oracle Solaris, compared to a third-party open-source platform. New additions to the Oracle Solaris Observability tools allow you to troubleshoot system and application problems in real time, giving you real-time and historical insight and allowing for unprecedented power to diagnose and resolve issues quickly and easily.
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    IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
    WebSphere Hybrid Edition is a flexible, all-in-one solution for WebSphere application server deployments that can enable organizations to meet current and future requirements. It will enable you to optimize your existing WebSphere entitlements, modernize your applications, and build new cloud-native Java EE applications. An all-in-one solution to help you run, modernize and create new Java applications. Use IBM Cloud® Transformation Advisor and IBM Mono2Micro to help assess the cloud readiness of your applications, explore options for containerization and microservices, and get assistance in adapting code. Explore and unlock the benefits of the all-in-one IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition solution for your application run time and modernization features. Identify which WebSphere applications can easily move to containers for immediate savings. Manage costs, enhancements, and security proactively throughout the application lifecycle.
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    Ondat

    Ondat

    Ondat

    Accelerate your development by using a storage layer that works natively with your Kubernetes environment. Focus on running your application, while we make sure you have the persistent volumes that give you the scale and stability you need. Reduce complexity and increase efficiency in your app modernization journey by truly integrating stateful storage into Kubernetes. Run your database or any persistent workload in a Kubernetes environment without having to worry about managing the storage layer. Ondat gives you the ability to deliver a consistent storage layer across any platform. We give you the persistent volumes to allow you to run your own databases without paying for expensive hosted options. Take back control of your data layer in Kubernetes. Kubernetes-native storage with dynamic provisioning that works as it should. Fully API-driven, tight integration with your containerized applications.
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