Best On-Premises Container Management Software
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What is On-Premises Container Management Software?
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 On-Premises Container Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Kasm Workspaces
Kasm Technologies
Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition -
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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.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Designed on the same principles that allows Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your ops team. Whether testing locally or running a global enterprise, Kubernetes flexibility grows with you to deliver your applications consistently and easily no matter how complex your need is. Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure, letting you effortlessly move workloads to where it matters to you.Starting Price: Free -
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Portainer Business
Portainer
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.Starting Price: Free -
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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.Starting Price: $5/resource/mo -
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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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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). -
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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
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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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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Azure App Service
Microsoft
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs on your terms. Work with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers or running on Windows or Linux. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security and compliance requirements used a trusted, fully managed platform that handles over 40 billion requests per day. Fully managed platform with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Built-in CI/CD integration and zero-downtime deployments. Rigorous security and compliance, including SOC and PCI, for seamless deployments across public cloud, Azure Government, and on-premises environments. Bring your code or container using the framework language of your choice. Increase developer productivity with tight integration of Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry.Starting Price: $0.013 per hour -
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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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IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service is a certified, managed Kubernetes solution, built for creating a cluster of compute hosts to deploy and manage containerized apps on IBM Cloud®. It provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling and securely manages the resources that you need to quickly deploy, update and scale applications. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service manages the master, freeing you from having to manage the host OS, container runtime and Kubernetes version-update process.Starting Price: $0.11 per hour
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HashiCorp Nomad
HashiCorp
A simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale. Single 35MB binary that integrates into existing infrastructure. Easy to operate on-prem or in the cloud with minimal overhead. Orchestrate applications of any type - not just containers. First class support for Docker, Windows, Java, VMs, and more. Bring orchestration benefits to existing services. Achieve zero downtime deployments, improved resilience, higher resource utilization, and more without containerization. Single command for multi-region, multi-cloud federation. Deploy applications globally to any region using Nomad as a single unified control plane. One single unified workflow for deploying to bare metal or cloud environments. Enable multi-cloud applications with ease. Nomad integrates seamlessly with Terraform, Consul and Vault for provisioning, service networking, and secrets management. -
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Anthos
Google
Anthos lets you build, deploy, and manage applications anywhere in a secure, consistent manner. You can modernize existing applications running on virtual machines while deploying cloud-native apps on containers in an increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud world. Our application platform provides a consistent development and operations experience across all your deployments while reducing operational overhead and improving developer productivity. Anthos GKE: Enterprise-grade container orchestration and management service for running Kubernetes clusters anywhere, in both cloud and on-premises environments. Anthos Config Management: Define, automate, and enforce policies across environments in order to meet your organization’s unique security and compliance requirements. Anthos Service Mesh: Anthos unburdens operations and development teams by empowering them to manage and secure traffic between services while monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving application performance. -
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Kublr
Kublr
Centrally deploy, run, and manage Kubernetes clusters across all of your environments with a comprehensive container orchestration platform that finally delivers on the Kubernetes promise. Optimized for large enterprises, Kublr is designed to provide multi-cluster deployments and observability. We made it easy, so your team can focus on what really matters: innovation and value generation. Enterprise-grade container orchestration might start with Docker and Kubernetes, but Kublr delivers the comprehensive, flexible tools that ensure you deploy enterprise-class Kubernetes clusters from Day One. The platform eases adoption for enterprises new to Kubernetes while providing the flexibility and control mature organizations need. While master self-healing is key, true high availability can only be achieved with additional node self-healing, ensuring worker nodes are as reliable as the cluster. -
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Mirantis Container Cloud
Mirantis
Provisioning and managing cloud native infrastructure doesn’t have to be a moonshot. In fact, it can be as simple as point-and-click. Mirantis Container Cloud gives administrators and developers the power to deploy Kubernetes and OpenStack environments from a single pane of glass—across on-prem, hosted bare metal, and public cloud. No more scheduling work around updates. Get access to new features faster—with zero downtime for clusters and workloads. Give your developers the power to effortlessly create, observe, and manage Kubernetes clusters, all with custom guardrails. Mirantis Container Cloud gives you a single console to manage your entire hybrid infrastructure estate. Mirantis Container Cloud deploys, manages, and maintains both Mirantis Kubernetes Engine container-based deployments and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes virtualization environments. -
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Joyent Triton
Joyent
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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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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Amazon EKS Anywhere
Amazon
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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SUSE Rancher Prime
SUSE
SUSE Rancher Prime addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying applications with Kubernetes and IT operations delivering enterprise-critical services. SUSE Rancher Prime supports any CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. For on-premises workloads, we offer the RKE. We support all the public cloud distributions, including EKS, AKS, and GKE. At the edge, we offer K3s. SUSE Rancher Prime provides simple, consistent cluster operations, including provisioning, version management, visibility and diagnostics, monitoring and alerting, and centralized audit. SUSE Rancher Prime lets you automate processes and applies a consistent set of user access and security policies for all your clusters, no matter where they’re running. SUSE Rancher Prime provides a rich catalogue of services for building, deploying, and scaling containerized applications, including app packaging, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and service mesh. -
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IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift unifies traditional and container storage, enabling easier deployment of enterprise-class scale-out microservices architectures. Validated with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes and IBM Cloud Pak. Delivering simplified deployment and management for an integrated experience. Enterprise data protection, automated scheduling, and data reuse support for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments. Block, file and object data resources. Quickly deploy what you need when you need it. IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift provides the infrastructure foundation and storage orchestration necessary for building a robust, agile, on-premises hybrid cloud environment. IBM supports CSI for its block and file storage families to improve container utilization in Kubernetes environments.
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Spectro Cloud Palette
Spectro Cloud
Spectro Cloud’s Palette is a comprehensive Kubernetes management platform designed to simplify and unify the deployment, operation, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments—from edge to cloud to data center. It provides full-stack, declarative orchestration, enabling users to blueprint cluster configurations with consistency and flexibility. The platform supports multi-cluster, multi-distro Kubernetes environments, delivering lifecycle management, granular access controls, cost visibility, and optimization. Palette integrates seamlessly with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and popular Kubernetes services such as EKS, OpenShift, and Rancher. With robust security features including FIPS and FedRAMP compliance, Palette addresses needs of government and regulated industries. It offers flexible deployment options—self-hosted, SaaS, or airgapped—ensuring organizations can choose the best fit for their infrastructure and security requirements. -
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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
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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