Compare the Top Container Engines as of July 2025

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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    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 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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    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere

    KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem. KubeSphere is also a multi-tenant enterprise-grade open-source Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated IT operations and streamlined DevOps workflows. It provides developer-friendly wizard web UI, helping enterprises to build out a more robust and feature-rich Kubernetes platform, which includes the most common functionalities needed for enterprise Kubernetes strategies. A CNCF-certified Kubernetes platform, 100% open-source, built and improved by the community. Can be deployed on an existing Kubernetes cluster or Linux machines, supports the online and air-gapped installation. Deliver DevOps, service mesh, observability, application management, multi-tenancy, storage, and networking management in a unified platform.
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    Flockport

    Flockport

    Flockport

    One-click migration from your existing VM workloads. Get instant mobility of your applications across on-prem and clouds. Why settle for one-way cloud migration when you can have continuous mobility. Migrate from on-prem to the cloud, across clouds, or back. Embrace the cloud your way. Business continuity needs application mobility and a multi-cloud approach. Leave behind long drawn out and expensive VM migration projects. Instashift gives you single-click automation. No need to adopt complex approaches. Migrate your VMs complete with applications, databases, and states. Benefit from continuous mobility for your instashifted applications. Move to the cloud or back to on-prem in a click. Need to move thousands of VMs. Instashift gives you an automated solution that works seamlessly. A new innovation platform for sovereign and emerging cloud providers to deliver the same capabilities and flexibility users have come to expect from the public cloud.
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    Cloudfleet Kubernetes Engine (CFKE)
    From datacenter to cloud to edge, Cloudfleet delivers the Kubernetes experience as it was meant to be. Just-in-time infrastructure, automated upgrades, and advanced permissions management, all seamlessly controlled through a single pane of glass for your clusters. Cloudfleet is a fully managed multi-cloud and hybrid Kubernetes service that simplifies your infrastructure setup with automated server provisioning across on-premises environments and 12 cloud service providers.
    Starting Price: $0
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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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