Top 10 Kubernetes Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Kubernetes Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Red Hat OpenShift
By Red Hat
4.5/5
(303)
Product Description
Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for creating and deploying any application, quickly and easily, on virtually any infrastructure.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift is:
More expensive
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
By Mirantis
4.4/5
(281)
Product Description
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is the world's leading software container platform to build, ship, and run any app anywhere.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is:
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.3/5
(276)
Product Description
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows users to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration
Container Management
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(114)
Product Description
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution that optimizes the configuration of popular open-source tools and technologies specifically for Azure, it provides an open solution that offers portability for both users containers and users application configuration.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is:
Easier to set up
More expensive
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

Portainer
By Portainer
4.8/5
(283)
Product Description
Portainer is a universal container management platform to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure containerized applications across cloud, data center, edge, and Industrial IoT use cases. Portainer is trusted by customers across various industries, including financial services, information technology, manufacturing, energy, automotive, and healthcare, to simplify container adoption securely and with exceptional speed. Portainer offers the perfect blend of infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization. Portainer provides extensive support for container orchestrators across every deployment scenario and helps bridge the knowledge gap within every organization.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Portainer is:
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Management

Google Cloud Run
By Google
4.6/5
(226)
Product Description
Cloud Run is the simplest way to deploy and scale serverless and container-based applications on Google Cloud. Start with source code, and have your application running anywhere in the world in seconds.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Google Cloud Run is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

SUSE Rancher
By SUSE
4.4/5
(118)
Product Description
Rancher is an open-source platform for managing containers that provides a full set of infrastructure services for containers, including networking, storage services, host management and load balancing, work across any infrastructure, and make it simple to reliably deploy and manage applications.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, SUSE Rancher is:
More expensive
Slower to reach roi
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Management

Cloud Foundry
By Cloud Foundry
4/5
(19)
Product Description
Cloud Foundry: Industry's Open Platform As A Service. Deploy and scale applications in seconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry is:
More expensive
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Management

Apache Mesos
By The Apache Software Foundation
4.2/5
(16)
Product Description
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that distributes resources across applications and databases.
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Reviewers say compared to Kubernetes, Apache Mesos is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Kubernetes:
Container Orchestration

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