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Container management software platforms help organizations deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications across multiple environments. These platforms streamline the orchestration of containers, allowing businesses to automate the deployment, scaling, and operation of application containers. They typically support Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration technologies to manage clusters of containers. Container management platforms improve efficiency by enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than worrying about the underlying infrastructure. They also provide monitoring, logging, and security features to ensure that applications run smoothly and securely in production. Compare and read user reviews of the best Container Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform provides a robust solution for container management with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which allows users to manage, deploy, and scale containerized applications. GKE automates the deployment process and provides built-in scalability for microservices architectures. New customers are offered $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, giving them the opportunity to experiment with container management tools and explore how GCP can support containerized workloads in production environments. GCP’s container services also integrate with other Google tools like Cloud Build and Cloud Monitoring, allowing businesses to build, deploy, and monitor applications in real-time. Additionally, GKE provides automatic updates and patch management, ensuring that containerized applications remain secure and up-to-date. These capabilities make it easy for businesses to manage containerized workloads at scale with minimal operational overhead.
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    60,421 Ratings
    Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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    Docker

    Docker

    Docker

    Docker takes away repetitive, mundane configuration tasks and is used throughout the development lifecycle for fast, easy and portable application development, desktop and cloud. Docker’s comprehensive end-to-end platform includes UIs, CLIs, APIs and security that are engineered to work together across the entire application delivery lifecycle. Get a head start on your coding by leveraging Docker images to efficiently develop your own unique applications on Windows and Mac. Create your multi-container application using Docker Compose. Integrate with your favorite tools throughout your development pipeline, Docker works with all development tools you use including VS Code, CircleCI and GitHub. Package applications as portable container images to run in any environment consistently from on-premises Kubernetes to AWS ECS, Azure ACI, Google GKE and more. Leverage Docker Trusted Content, including Docker Official Images and images from Docker Verified Publishers.
    4 Ratings
    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    Percona Kubernetes Operator
    The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB automates the creation, alteration, or deletion of members in your Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB environment. It can be used to instantiate a new Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set, or to scale an existing environment. The Operator contains all necessary Kubernetes settings to provide a proper and consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB instance. The Percona Kubernetes Operators are based on best practices for configuration and setup of a Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set. The benefits of the Operator are many but saving time and delivering a consistent and vetted environment is key.
    4 Ratings
    Starting Price: Free
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    Portainer Business
    Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.
    2 Ratings
    Starting Price: Free
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    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo

    Netreo is the most comprehensive full stack IT infrastructure management and observability platform. We provide a single source of truth for proactive performance and availability monitoring for large enterprise networks, infrastructure, applications and business services. Our solution is used by: - IT Executives to have full visibility from the business service right down into the infrastructure and network that supports it. - IT Engineering departments as a decision support system for capacity planning, and architecting modern solutions. - IT Operations teams for real time visibility into what is failing in their environment, what bottlenecks exist and who it is affecting. We provide all of these insights for systems and vendor mixes in large heterogeneous and constantly evolving environments. We have an extensive and growing list of supported vendors (over 350 integrations) including network vendors, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms and others.
    1 Rating
    Starting Price: $5/resource/mo
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    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo, is a global leader in alternative cloud enablement, providing unique, purpose-built software which enables infrastructure and platform solutions to over 600 service providers around the world. Performance, flexibility, and ease of use define the product line up. Our partners can quickly, cost effectively and profitably create alternative private, public, hybrid or multi-clouds, rivalling those from major cloud providers, but with greater ROI, and customization. Service providers and enterprises can choose between various products and capabilities, using software defined networking, storage and powerful compute management and monitoring. Virtuozzo’s primary products allow for the rapid construction of virtual private servers (VPS), IaaS, PaaS, Storage-as-a-Service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, WordPress-as-a-Service and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS).
    1 Rating
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    Cycle

    Cycle

    Cycle.io

    Cycle offers a refreshing take on container orchestration, enabling teams to spend more time building and less time managing. Deploy applications seamlessly, gain enhanced visibility, and maintain effortless control, all while reducing complexity and technical debt.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Strong Network

    Strong Network

    Strong Network

    Strong Network allows the management of containers for DevOps online (as opposed to locally on developers laptop) and access them through a cloud IDE or a SSH connection (in the case of a local IDE). These containers provide a complete management of access keys and credentials to multiple types of resources, in addition to providing data loss prevention (DLP). In addition we combine the IDE with a secure chrome browser (remote browser isolation) such that any third party applications for DevOps can be accessed with DLP. This platform is a complete replacement for VDI/DaaS for code development. Our platform allows the provisioning and management of containers for development online (as opposed to locally on developers' laptops, using a solution like docker desktop for example) and enables accessing them through a cloud IDE or a SSH connection (in the case of a local IDE).
    Starting Price: $39
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    Platform9

    Platform9

    Platform9

    Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our platform uniquely combines ease of use with flexibility, integrating seamlessly with existing storage and server infrastructure as well as other enterprise platforms. With automated migration tools, open APIs, and flexible deployment options—self-hosted, air-gapped, or SaaS—Platform9 gives you the freedom to run your private cloud, your way. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It delivers a familiar management experience for virtualization teams—with the ability to run VMs and containers side by side—and enterprise-grade features including High Availability, live migration, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, Software Defined Networking, Self Service, and secure multi-tenancy. Hundreds of enterprises, including Rackspace Technology, Cloudera, and Juniper Networks use Platform9 today.
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    Container Registry
    8gears Container Registry is a Harbor-based container registry as a service offered and operated by the project's maintainer and contributors. For organizations, and software vendors looking for ways to distribute software as container images.
    Starting Price: $249 per month
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    Calico Cloud
    Pay-as-you-go security and observability SaaS platform for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. Get a live view of dependencies and how all the services are communicating with each other in a multi-cluster, hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Eliminate setup and onboarding steps and troubleshoot your Kubernetes security and observability issues within minutes. Calico Cloud is a next-generation security and observability SaaS platform for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. It enables organizations of all sizes to protect their cloud workloads and containers, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real-time across multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments. Calico Cloud is built on Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Instead of managing a platform for container and Kubernetes security and observability, teams consume it as a managed service for faster analysis, relevant actions, etc.
    Starting Price: $0.05 per node hour
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    Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
    Easily handle multicluster scenarios for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters such as workload propagation, north-south load balancing (for traffic flowing into member clusters), and upgrade orchestration across multiple clusters. Fleet cluster enables centralized management of all your clusters at scale. The managed hub cluster takes care of the upgrades and Kubernetes cluster configuration for you. Kubernetes configuration propagation lets you use policies and overrides to disseminate objects across fleet member clusters. North-south load balancer orchestrates traffic flow across workloads deployed in multiple member clusters of the fleet. Group any combination of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to simplify multi-cluster workflows like Kubernetes configuration propagation and multi-cluster networking. Fleet requires a hub Kubernetes cluster to store configurations for placement policy and multicluster networking.
    Starting Price: $0.10 per cluster per hour
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    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    D2iQ Enterprise Kubernetes Platform (DKP) Run Kubernetes Workloads at Scale DKP includes everything you need to ease Kubernetes adoption, expand Kubernetes use, and enable advanced workloads across any infrastructure, whether on-prem, on the cloud, in air-gapped environments, or at the edge. Built to Solve the Toughest Enterprise Kubernetes Challenges Created to accelerate the journey to production at scale, DKP provides a single, centralized point of control to build, run, and manage applications across any infrastructure. Enable Day 2 Readiness Out-of-the-Box Without Lock-In DKP takes care of the heavy lifting by providing a comprehensive, enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution and a full stack of CNCF-certified Day 2 platform applications that are integrated, automated, and tested at scale for an out-of-the-box, production-ready experience.
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    Triton SmartOS
    Triton SmartOS combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor. Triton SmartOS leverages Zones, a hardened container runtime environment that does not depend upon VM hosts for security. Patented resource protections insulate containers and ensure that each container gets its fair share of I/O. Triton SmartOS eliminates the complexities associated with VM host dependent solutions. Built-in networking offers each container one or more network interfaces, so each container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network, eliminating port conflicts and making network management easy. Secure, isolated, resizable filesystems for each container. The speed of bare metal performance + the flexibility of virtualization.
    Starting Price: $0.009 per GB per month
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    IBM Cloud Container Registry
    Store and distribute container images in a fully managed private registry. Push private images to conveniently run them in the IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service and other runtime environments. Images are checked for security issues so you can make informed decisions about your deployments. Install the IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI to use the command line to manage your name spaces and Docker images in the IBM Cloud® private registry. View information about potential vulnerabilities and the security of images in the IBM Cloud Container Registry public and private repositories with the IBM Cloud console. Check the security status of container images that are provided by IBM, third parties or that are added to your organization's registry namespace. Advanced capabilities for security compliance insight. Access controls and image signing capabilities. Pre-integration with Kubernetes Service.
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    AWS App2Container
    AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command line tool for migrating and modernizing Java and .NET web applications into container format. AWS A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of applications running in bare metal, virtual machines, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, or in the cloud. Save on infrastructure and training costs by streamlining application development and operational skill sets. Accelerate modernization with automatic analysis of applications and autogenerated container images. Containerize applications running in your data center without code changes. Migrate and modernize legacy applications while standardizing the deployment and operations of your applications. Use AWS CloudFormation templates that configure required compute, network, and security infrastructure. Use pre-created continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for AWS DevOps services.
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    Joyent Triton
    Single Tenant Public Cloud with all the security, savings and control of private cloud. Fully Managed by Joyent. Single Tenant Security, Full Operations control over your Private Cloud with Installation, Onboarding and Support provided by Joyent. Open Source or Commercial support for on-premises, user managed private cloud. Built to deliver VMs, containers and bare metal. Built to support exabyte-scale workloads. Joyent engineers provide 360 degree support for modern application architectures, including microservices, apis, development frameworks and container-native devops tooling. Hybrid, Modern and Open, Triton is engineered to run the world’s largest cloud native applications.
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    Scale Computing Platform
    SC//Platform brings faster time to value in the data center, in the distributed enterprise, and at the edge. Scale Computing Platform brings simplicity, high availability and scalability together, replacing the existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running VMs in a single, easy-to-manage platform. Run your applications in a fully integrated platform. Regardless of your hardware requirements, the same innovative software and simple user interface give you the power to run infrastructure efficiently at the edge. Eliminate mundane management tasks and save the valuable time of IT administrators. The simplicity of SC//Platform directly impacts IT with higher productivity and lower costs. Plan the perfect future by not predicting it. Simply mix and match old and new hardware and applications on the same infrastructure for a future-proof environment that can scale up or down as needed.
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    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda Cloud Platform empowers enterprise IT to create a Kubernetes-enabled shared service on the infrastructures of their choice and offer it to developers across business units. ACP supports your entire custom application portfolio. Rapidly build, deploy, run, and manage cloud-native, microservices, and container-based .NET and Java applications or modernize traditional workloads. ACP gives your developers self-service access to the tools they need to rapidly build applications, while IT operators can very easily orchestrate the environments and workflows. Enterprise IT becomes a true service provider. ACP is a single platform spanning your multiple data- centers and clouds. Run ACP on-premise or consume it as a managed service on the public cloud; both with the assurance of complete infrastructure independence. ACP enables policy-driven control over all of your application workloads' infrastructure utilization and DevOps processes.
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    AWS Fargate
    AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Fargate makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Fargate allocates the right amount of compute, eliminating the need to choose instances and scale cluster capacity. You only pay for the resources required to run your containers, so there is no over-provisioning and paying for additional servers. Fargate runs each task or pod in its own kernel providing the tasks and pods their own isolated compute environment. This enables your application to have workload isolation and improved security by design.
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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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    HPE Ezmeral

    HPE Ezmeral

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Run, manage, control and secure the apps, data and IT that run your business, from edge to cloud. HPE Ezmeral advances digital transformation initiatives by shifting time and resources from IT operations to innovations. Modernize your apps. Simplify your Ops. And harness data to go from insights to impact. Accelerate time-to-value by deploying Kubernetes at scale with integrated persistent data storage for app modernization on bare metal or VMs, in your data center, on any cloud or at the edge. Harness data and get insights faster by operationalizing the end-to-end process to build data pipelines. Bring DevOps agility to the machine learning lifecycle, and deliver a unified data fabric. Boost efficiency and agility in IT Ops with automation and advanced artificial intelligence. And provide security and control to eliminate risk and reduce costs. HPE Ezmeral Container Platform provides an enterprise-grade platform to deploy Kubernetes at scale for a wide range of use cases.
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    Amazon EKS Anywhere
    Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables you to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on-premises and automation tooling for cluster lifecycle support. EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro (the same Kubernetes that powers EKS on AWS.) EKS Anywhere saves you the complexity of buying or building your own management tooling to create EKS Distro clusters, configure the operating environment, update software, and handle backup and recovery. EKS Anywhere enables you to automate cluster management, reduce support costs, and eliminate the redundant effort of using multiple open source or 3rd party tools for operating Kubernetes clusters. EKS Anywhere is fully supported by AWS.
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    VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
    Power your modern applications with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Run the same K8s across data center, public cloud and edge for a consistent, secure experience for all development teams. Keep your workloads properly isolated and secure. Get a complete, easy-to-upgrade Kubernetes runtime with preintegrated and validated components. Deploy and scale all clusters without downtime. Apply security fixes fast. Run your containerized applications on a certified Kubernetes distribution, bolstered by the global Kubernetes community. Use your existing data center tools and workflows to give developers secure, self-serve access to conformant Kubernetes clusters in your VMware private cloud, and extend the same consistent Kubernetes runtime across your public cloud and edge environments. Simplify operations of large-scale, multicluster Kubernetes environments, and keep your workloads properly isolated. Automate lifecycle management to reduce your risk and shift your focus to more strategic work.
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    Azure Web App for Containers
    It has never been easier to deploy container-based web apps. Just pull container images from Docker Hub or a private Azure Container Registry, and Web App for Containers will deploy the containerized app with your preferred dependencies to production in seconds. The platform automatically takes care of OS patching, capacity provisioning, and load balancing. Automatically scale vertically and horizontally based on application needs. Granular scaling rules are available to handle peaks in workload automatically while minimizing costs during off-peak times. Deploy data and host services across multiple locations with just few mouse clicks.
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    F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
    Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations. Achieve effortless management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API, unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver, and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location. Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Kubernetes no matter the location, from private and public cloud to edge locations. Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network, and application firewall.
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    Nutanix Kubernetes Platform
    Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies platform engineering by reducing operational complexity and establishing consistency across any environment. All the components needed for production-ready Kubernetes in a fully integrated turnkey solution. Deploy in the public cloud, on-premises, or at the edge with or without Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. Composed of upstream CNCF projects that are fully integrated and validated, but easily replaced so you’re not locked in. Simplify complex microservices management while enhancing observability and security. Add comprehensive multi-cluster management capabilities to your public cloud Kubernetes deployments without needing to migrate to a different runtime. Leverage AI and get the most out of Kubernetes with anomaly detection with root cause analysis and an intelligent chatbot to provide best practices and drive consistency.
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    Sangfor Kubernetes Engine
    Sangfor Kubernetes Engine (SKE) is a container management platform built on upstream Kubernetes, fully integrated into Sangfor HCI and managed by Sangfor Cloud Platform, that provides a unified environment for running and managing both containers and virtual machines with simplicity, reliability, and security. Ideal for deploying new containerized applications, transitioning to microservices architectures, or consolidating existing VM workloads, SKE offers centralized account, permission, monitoring, and alert management across all workloads. Users can automate the creation of production‑ready Kubernetes clusters in as little as 15 minutes, eliminating manual OS installation and configuration, and leverage a rich set of out‑of‑the‑box components for rapid application deployment, visualized monitoring, diverse log types, and built‑in high‑performance load balancing.
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    sloppy.io

    sloppy.io

    sloppy.io

    Containers have taken over the software world by storm — and for good reason. They’ve proven vital for DevOps and deployment, and have a multitude of uses for developers. In comparison to Virtual Machines, containers need few resources, deploy fast, and scale easily. Docker is the ideal tool for agile projects, products and companies. Kubernetes is complex. With sloppy.io you don’t have to worry about overlay networks, storage providers and ingress controllers. We manage the infrastructure for hosting your Docker containers, securely connecting them to your users and reliably storing your data. You can deploy and monitor your projects through our web-based UI, command line tools (CLI), and API. Our support chat connects you exclusively to software engineering and operations experts, ready to help.
    Starting Price: €19 per month
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