Container tools
Desktop apps and dashboards for running and watching Docker or Podman containers.
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Docker Compose
A command-line tool that defines and runs multi-container applications from a single YAML file.
Docker Desktop
The standard way to run containers on a Windows or Mac desktop, free for personal use and paid for larger companies.
Docker Engine
The container runtime that builds, packages and runs applications in Docker containers.
Kubernetes
An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications across machines.
Lens
A desktop IDE for understanding, debugging and operating Kubernetes clusters from one workspace.
minikube
Run a local Kubernetes cluster for development and testing.
Podman
Daemonless container engine with a Docker-compatible command line.
Portainer
Web interface for deploying and managing Docker and Kubernetes workloads.
Alpine Linux
A small, security-oriented Linux distribution built on musl libc and BusyBox.
Apple container
Run Linux containers in lightweight virtual machines on a Mac.
Apptainer
An open-source container platform, formerly Singularity, built for running applications on HPC clusters.
Aptakube
A desktop Kubernetes client that connects to several clusters at once in a single view.
Arcane
Modern web interface for managing Docker hosts and Compose stacks.
Bottlerocket
A minimal open-source Linux operating system from AWS that exists only to host containers.
BoxBuddy
An unofficial graphical desktop app for creating and managing Distrobox containers on Linux.
Buildah
A command-line tool for building OCI container images without a running daemon.
cAdvisor
A daemon that collects and analyzes resource usage and performance data for running containers.
cert-manager
A Kubernetes and OpenShift controller that issues and renews X.509 TLS certificates automatically.
Clair
A self-hosted service that statically analyses container images for known vulnerabilities.
Cloud Hypervisor
An open source virtual machine monitor written in Rust for running modern cloud workloads on KVM.
Cloud Native Buildpacks
Tooling that turns application source code into container images without writing a Dockerfile.
Cockpit Podman
A plugin for the Cockpit web console that manages Podman containers from a browser.
Colima
Run container environments on macOS and Linux from the command line.
Container Structure Test
A command-line tool for validating the structure and contents of container images against defined tests.
Containerlab
A command-line tool that builds and manages container-based network labs with virtual routers and switches.
CRI-O
A lightweight container runtime built specifically to run containers for Kubernetes.
ctop
Watch container resource use in a terminal dashboard.
Cup
A lightweight tool with a web dashboard that checks your Docker containers for image updates.
Dagger
A container-based engine for writing build and CI pipelines as code and running them anywhere.
Dev Container CLI
The reference command-line tool for creating and configuring development containers from devcontainer.json.
