Alternatives to Docker
Who this is for
If you're comparing Docker with other companies in Containers & Kubernetes and Developer Tools, start here. These are the 37 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the Docker profile.
Containers & Kubernetes: Docker's main category
19 companies sit alongside Docker here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#3 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
- Google Cloud#2 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
- Red Hat#1 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Red Hat is an enterprise open source software company best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud application platform and Ansible…
- 64 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 published review
- Solo.io#17 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Solo.io is a cloud-native application networking company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2017 by Idit Levine. It sells Gloo Gateway, an Envoy-based API…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#4 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Developer Tools
- SUSE#5 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
SUSE is an enterprise open source software company founded in 1992 in Nuremberg, Germany. It develops SUSE Linux Enterprise, the Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform…
- 16 stories in the last 90 days
- Sysdig#19 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Sysdig is a US cloud and container security company founded in 2013 by Loris Degioanni, co-creator of Wireshark. Its Sysdig Secure platform provides cloud-native application…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Tigera#18 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Tigera is a US Kubernetes networking and security company founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco. It is the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, a widely used open source…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Canonical#8 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Canonical is a British software company founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and headquartered in London. It publishes Ubuntu, the open-source Linux distribution, and sells…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- Spectro Cloud#14 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Spectro Cloud is a US Kubernetes management company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Palette platform manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- Nutanix#10 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Nutanix is a hybrid multicloud software company whose Nutanix Cloud Platform combines hyperconverged compute and storage, the AHV hypervisor, unified file and object storage…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Mirantis#7 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Mirantis is a cloud-native infrastructure company offering Kubernetes and container platforms, OpenStack and open-source tooling, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis…
- 10 stories in the last 90 days
- Broadcom#6 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, formed when Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom Corporation in 2016. It…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Platform9#13 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Platform9 is a cloud infrastructure software company that provides private cloud and Kubernetes management delivered as a SaaS-managed service. Its products include Private Cloud…
- 4 stories in the last 90 days
- Aqua Security#20 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Aqua Security is a cloud native security company founded in Israel in 2015. It provides a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) covering container, Kubernetes and…
Evidence is still building for Aqua Security.
- IBM#12 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Oracle#11 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
- Portainer#16 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Portainer is a container management platform from Portainer.io, a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its graphical and API-driven tooling lets teams deploy, operate and…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Rafay#15 leader in Containers & KubernetesCompare with Docker
Rafay is a US software company, formally Rafay Systems, that sells a platform for operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at scale. Its platform-as-a-service offering…
Evidence is still building for Rafay.
Developer Tools
18 companies sit alongside Docker here, busiest first. 1 other is listed in an earlier section.
- Vercel#7 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and…
- 93 stories in the last 90 days
- Cloudflare#20 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- JetBrains#3 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the…
- 56 stories in the last 90 days
- Twilio#16 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other…
- 51 stories in the last 90 days
- GitHub#1 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Netlify#8 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and…
- 41 stories in the last 90 days
- Kong#17 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Kong is an API management and connectivity company known for Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway, and Kong Konnect, its cloud-hosted API platform. It also develops Kong Mesh…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- GitLab#4 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform company whose single application covers source code management, CI/CD, security testing and software delivery, with AI features under GitLab Duo…
- 40 stories in the last 90 days
- Postman#6 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Supabase#15 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Snyk#12 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Sentry#13 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- SmartBear#18 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and…
- 24 stories in the last 90 days
- Replit#10 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Sourcegraph#11 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that…
- 6 stories in the last 90 days
- Atlassian#5 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools…
Evidence is still building for Atlassian.
- Cursor#9 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a…
Evidence is still building for Cursor.
- Tricentis#19 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with Docker
Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test…
Evidence is still building for Tricentis.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Docker. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Docker's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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