--- title: Apache Karaf Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Karaf Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Karaf works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 24 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Apache Karaf Reviews & Product Details Apache Karaf provides dual polymorphic container and application bootstrapping paradigms to the Enterprise. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Karaf Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-karaf/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![GlusterFS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GlusterFS") GlusterFS 4.3/5(27) ](https://www.g2.com/products/glusterfs/reviews) [ ![IBM Storage Ceph](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Storage Ceph") IBM Storage Ceph 4.1/5(22) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-storage-ceph/reviews) [ ![Red Hat Runtimes](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Runtimes") Red Hat Runtimes 4.4/5(64) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-runtimes/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-karaf/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 24 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Mithilesh kumar r.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mithilesh kumar r.") MR Mithilesh kumar r. Freelancer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/16/2022 "Best Data Stream Platform" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Easy for software development. Less code does much work also, Deployment process of a batch applications was very simple in Apache Karaf even in the Clustered Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Nothing to dislike, but all the time need to compile if changes have been made. One more thing, Need to improve the cloud api call in order to update configuration and properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: Its Best use it without any hesitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? 1 Wrapping normal jar helps to embedded as a bundle. 2 Installing lucene dependencies as a feathers part, I was able to work on search on my application freely.veda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jayanth T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayanth T.") JT Jayanth T. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/24/2021 "Apache karaf enterprise ready platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? It gives Unix like console, dynamic configuration, advanced logging where slf4j, log4j etc frameworks can be used. It provides complete security framework and role based access control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Nothing to dislike but the UI can be improved with latest technologies so it would be more user friendly. It sometimes crashes, so maybe they can look up to things help it run seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: It's an excellent application to use and promote business growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps in easy deployment, centralized logging which is flexible in using different logging frameworks. It's used for monitoring and electing. This helped in increasing my business performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Piyush L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Piyush L.") PL Piyush L. Data Engineer 2 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/28/2022 "Best standalone container for Microservices" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Run anywhere concept is very good. Which is good to run Microservices, big data code deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Assembling many thing as it is not tightly coupled. This is useful in Microservices based app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: Highly recommended for startups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? Code deployment where app is divided in Microservices and each run independent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Huy V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Huy V.") HV Huy V. DevOps Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/17/2022 "Apache Kafka the best data stream platform" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Keep do not lost the message package during steaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Need more infra resources to implement cluster architechture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? The best streaming data, helpful to make data etl system, do not lost the message package during steaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ankit K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ankit K.") AK Ankit K. System QA Sr Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/14/2021 "Best bootstrapping provider" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Beet server to connect with different java technology suchnas jsp,servlet. Quick setup. Can explore complex setup while using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Nothing to dislike but gui for inspection would have added more advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? Synchronisation between legecy system & new code. Exporting data from legecy to new system is easy.. with master slave architecture the application can run upto 10 servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Mohd S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohd S.") MS Mohd S. Survey Programmer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/23/2021 "Server" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? This is the best server to connect with JSP, servlet, and other java technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Nothing to dislike, but all the time need to compile if changes have been made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? We can test in real-time applications that need to go live. We can test before going live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Marcel S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Marcel S.") MS Marcel S. Senior Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/21/2020 "First impressions" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Quick setup and running - in a SpringBoot application just add annotation @KafkaListener to your Consumer and you are good to go. Also you can explore more complex setups while using a running application. Also horizontal scalability is a big like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? I wished that a graphical explorer interface would be provided for inspecting topics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: Solid performance, robust implementation. It is very easy to start and build as you go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? Synchronization between legacy code and new developed application. Just used single point of change in old application to be able to export data that can be consumed by multiple new apps, in different ways. Also persistence of messages removed a concern about disaster recovery or simple crashes of kafka consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arpit S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arpit S.") AS Arpit S. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/12/2020 "Best Match Fault Tolerant Server for Batch Application" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Deployment process of a batch applications was very simple in Apache Karaf even in the Clustered Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Sometimes the deployment of image on the servers were not reflected properly on all the servers so we need to re-deploy the application on all the servers again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: Best server for batch applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? Business requirement was to generate a transaction report in .csv format for all the Credit Card transactions. There was a huge amount of Data to pick and files that were generated after our successful run were in GBs. We need to run our Apache Batch application in a Clustered Way in and the process needs to be quick and fault tolerant. With the Master/Slave Architecture the application was running on 10 servers in Apache Karaf in a clustered way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") CF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2021 "Apache karaf application server Benefits" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? It’s very easy deploy either directly or using devops . Also have command based to Manages environments. Good handles on server load in distributing system and great on process management and memory management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Need to improve the cloud api call in order to update configuration and properties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Karaf: I will always recommend as to do your deployment application on Apache karaf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? We have applications with heavy load on memory and cache occupancy so we chose karaf as our application server on a distribution slides so we can share the application load by share thread pool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ahsan K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ahsan K.") AK Ahsan K. Development Team Lead Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/12/2020 "Modularization approach" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Karaf? Making logical independent modules, Wrapping normal jar, predefined dependencies as a features, anatomy of each bundle, powerfull shell command and bundle life cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Karaf? Sometimes resolving dependencies takes so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Karaf solving and how is that benefiting you? 1 Wrapping normal jar helps to embedded as a bundle. 2 Installing lucene dependencies as a feathers part, I was able to work on search on my application freely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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