Docker vs Kontena Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Docker

Stacks179.0K

Followers143.8K

Votes3.9K

Kontena

Stacks10

Followers36

Votes0

GitHub Stars1.5K

Forks125

Docker vs Kontena: What are the differences?

Developers describe Docker as "Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation". The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere. On the other hand, Kontena is detailed as "Docker Container Orchestration Platform Written in Ruby". Kontena is an open source container orchestration tool that makes it easy to deploy and manage containerized applications on your own servers.

Docker and Kontena are primarily classified as "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" and "Platform as a Service" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Docker are:

Integrated developer tools
open, portable images
shareable, reusable apps

On the other hand, Kontena provides the following key features:

Automatic Node Discovery
Mixed Infrastructure Support
Service Abstraction

Docker and Kontena are both open source tools. It seems that Docker with 54K GitHub stars and 15.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kontena with 1.44K GitHub stars and 117 GitHub forks.

Advice on Docker, Kontena

Florian

IT DevOp at Agitos GmbH

Oct 22, 2019

Decided

lxd/lxc and Docker aren't congruent so this comparison needs a more detailed look; but in short I can say: the lxd-integrated administration of storage including zfs with its snapshot capabilities as well as the system container (multi-process) approach of lxc vs. the limited single-process container approach of Docker is the main reason I chose lxd over Docker.

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Detailed Comparison

Docker	Kontena
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere	Kontena is an open source container orchestration tool that makes it easy to deploy and manage containerized applications on your own servers.
Integrated developer tools; open, portable images; shareable, reusable apps; framework-aware builds; standardized templates; multi-environment support; remote registry management; simple setup for Docker and Kubernetes; certified Kubernetes; application templates; enterprise controls; secure software supply chain; industry-leading container runtime; image scanning; access controls; image signing; caching and mirroring; image lifecycle; policy-based image promotion	Automatic Node Discovery;Mixed Infrastructure Support; Service Abstraction;Service Linking;Advanced Orchestration
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 1.5K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 125
Stacks 179.0K	Stacks 10
Followers 143.8K	Followers 36
Votes 3.9K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 823 Rapid integration and build up 692 Isolation 521 Open source 505 Testability and reproducibility 460 Lightweight Cons 8 New versions == broken features 6 Documentation not always in sync 6 Unreliable networking 4 Moves quickly 3 Not Secure	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Java Docker Compose VirtualBox Linux Amazon EC2 Container Service Docker Swarm boot2docker Kubernetes Docker Machine Vagrant	Docker Machine Vagrant Microsoft Azure Weave Amazon EC2 DigitalOcean

What are some alternatives to Docker, Kontena?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Google App Engine

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Render

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Hasura

An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Jelastic

Jelastic is a Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS for ISVs, telcos, service providers and enterprises needing to speed up development, reduce cost of IT infrastructure, improve uptime and security.

Dokku

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.