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Container Management Software Platforms Guide

Container management software platforms assist in the creation, automation, deployment, arrangement and virtualization of software containers. Compare the best Container Management software platforms currently available using the table below.

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    Kasm

    Kasm

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Server is a secure virtualized workspace that provides secure browser-based access to desktops, applications, and web services. Kasm is changing the way that businesses deliver digital workspaces using our Containerized Desktop Infrastructure (CDI) technology to dramatically increase speed, responsiveness, and flexibility. We use a modern DevSecOps approach for programmatic delivery of services that include virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI), application streaming, and browser isolation in a solution that is highly scalable, customizable, and easy to maintain. Kasm can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks), or in a hybrid configuration.

    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition Partner badge
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    Docker

    Docker

    Docker

    Docker is a software company and offers a software title called Docker. Docker offers training via in person sessions. Docker is application development software, and includes features such as access Controls/Permissions, code refactoring, collaboration tools, compatibility testing, data modeling, deployment management, No-Code, Reporting/Analytics, and source control. With regards to system requirements, Docker is available as SaaS software. Costs start at $7.00/month. Docker includes business hours support, and online support. Some alternative products to Docker include Lightbend, Anthos, and Hansoft.

    Starting Price: $7.00/month
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    Amazon ECS

    Amazon ECS

    Amazon

    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service. Customers such as Duolingo, Samsung, GE, and Cook Pad use ECS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability. ECS is a great choice to run containers for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your ECS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. 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. Second, ECS is used extensively within Amazon to power services such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Batch, Amazon Lex, and Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, ensuring ECS is tested extensively for security, reliability, and availability.

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    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

    Google

    Run advanced apps on a secured and managed Kubernetes service. GKE is an enterprise-grade platform for containerized applications, including stateful and stateless, AI and ML, Linux and Windows, complex and simple web apps, API, and backend services. Leverage industry-first features like four-way auto-scaling and no-stress management. Optimize GPU and TPU provisioning, use integrated developer tools, and get multi-cluster support from SREs. Start quickly with single-click clusters. Leverage a high-availability control plane including multi-zonal and regional clusters. Eliminate operational overhead with auto-repair, auto-upgrade, and release channels. Secure by default, including vulnerability scanning of container images and data encryption. Integrated Cloud Monitoring with infrastructure, application, and Kubernetes-specific views. Speed up app development without sacrificing security.

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    Kubernetes

    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.

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    Red Hat OpenShift

    Red Hat OpenShift

    Red Hat

    The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies.

    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    Percona Kubernetes Operator

    Percona Kubernetes Operator

    Percona

    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.

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    Container Registry

    Container Registry

    8gears

    A no frills Harbor based Container Registry Service for teams, individuals and Software Vendor looking for ways to distribute software as container images.

    Starting Price: $49
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    Scalingo

    Scalingo

    Scalingo

    Automagic cloud hosting for awesome teams. From prototypes to production-ready applications, Scalingo empowers software teams to manage entire application lifecycles without sysadmin knowledge. Just push your code, your application stack and dependencies are automagically detected and packaged. Instant deployment, instant availability, instant work makes continuous delivery possible. Without DevOps. Start small, grow later, from a prototype to a production-grade infrastructure, instantly, billed by the minute. From 1 to 100 containers in seconds, to handle a peak of traffic or absorb your usual growth, with end-to-end automated processes taking care of continuous deployment. Dedicated resources are allocated for your application. All your containers are isolated from others with security built-in: we take care of OS and software stacks security fixes.

    Starting Price: €7.20 per month
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    Azure Container Registry

    Azure Container Registry

    Microsoft

    Build, store, secure, scan, replicate, and manage container images and artifacts with a fully managed, geo-replicated instance of OCI distribution. Connect across environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and across Azure services like App Service, Machine Learning, and Batch. Geo-replication to efficiently manage a single registry across multiple regions. OCI artifact repository for adding helm charts, singularity support, and new OCI artifact-supported formats. Automated container building and patching including base image updates and task scheduling. Integrated security with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication, role-based access control, Docker content trust, and virtual network integration. Streamline building, testing, pushing, and deploying images to Azure with Azure Container Registry Tasks.

    Starting Price: $0.167 per day
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    Azure App Service

    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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    IronWorker

    IronWorker

    Iron.io

    Container based workloads, full GPU support, autoscaling, custom built solutions. Let Worker take care of your jobs so you can focus on your application. A hosted background job solution that lets you run your containers with dynamic scale, detailed analytics and world class customer support. Run short lived containers quickly, or even containers needing to work across multiple days. Whether it's a one-off job, or one that needs 1000's of workers running in parallel, we've got you covered. Containerize your background tasks with confidence. Run your containers on our shared infrastructure. Dedicated hardware for your workloads. A great option when you need consistent performance and throughput. Our autoscale technology helps you scale up and down based on your usage. You run workers on your own hardware, and we take care of the authentication, scheduling, and everything else. If you have access to your own infrastructure and/or have higher security needs, this is often a great fit.

    Starting Price: $4.99/month
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    Spot Ocean

    Spot Ocean

    Spot

    Spot Ocean lets you reap the benefits of Kubernetes without worrying about infrastructure while gaining deep cluster visibility and dramatically reducing costs. The key question is how to use containers without the operational overhead of managing the underlying VMs while also take advantage of the cost benefits associated with Spot Instances and multi-cloud. Spot Ocean is built to solve this problem by managing containers in a “Serverless� environment. Ocean provides an abstraction on top of virtual machines allowing to deploy Kubernetes clusters without the need to manage the underlying VMs. Ocean takes advantage of multiple compute purchasing options like Reserved and Spot instance pricing and failover to On-Demand instances whenever necessary, providing 80% reduction in infrastructure costs. Spot Ocean is a Serverless Compute Engine that abstracts the provisioning (launching), auto-scaling, and management of worker nodes in Kubernetes clusters.

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    StackPath

    StackPath

    StackPath

    Not all CDN is the same. StackPath CDN and StackPath Edge Delivery packages include more for accelerating and protecting websites, video services, gaming platforms and beyond. Others talk about “edge computing� but StackPath lets you actually deploy VMs and containers (as well as serverless) right at the Internet’s edge. Real compute. Real advantages. StackPath is a platform of computing infrastructure and services built at the edge of the cloud. So, if you’re a developer, now you can build and deploy right on the Internet’s front steps. That way users of your app, website, API, content, or whatever else you’re building in the cloud don’t bounce around the world before reaching you, and will have a fast, secure, and seamless experience.

    Starting Price: $0.049 per hour
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    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    Designed for large-scale production deployments, Mesosphere provides tremendous scale and reliability across a wide-range of cloud native applications and data services. Ksphere provides end-to-end support for Kubernetes and the full stack of supporting services your organization depends upon.

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    Gravity

    Gravity

    Gravitational

    Gravity is an upstream Kubernetes packaging solution that takes the drama out of deploying and running applications in someone else's cloud accounts, on-premise data centers, edge locations and other "uncharted territory" environments. With Gravity, your Kubernetes apps can run and be regularly updated anywhere in the world without a massive DevOps team.

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    Apache Mesos

    Apache Mesos

    Apache Software Foundation

    Mesos is built using the same principles as the Linux kernel, only at a different level of abstraction. The Mesos kernel runs on every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch) with API’s for resource management and scheduling across entire datacenter and cloud environments. Native support for launching containers with Docker and AppC images.Support for running cloud native and legacy applications in the same cluster with pluggable scheduling policies.

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    HashiCorp Nomad

    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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    Fairwinds Insights

    Fairwinds Insights

    Fairwinds Ops

    Protect and optimize your mission-critical Kubernetes applications. Fairwinds Insights is a Kubernetes configuration validation platform that proactively monitors your Kubernetes and container configurations and recommends improvements. The software combines trusted open source tools, toolchain integrations, and SRE expertise based on hundreds of successful Kubernetes deployments. Balancing the velocity of engineering with the reactionary pace of security can result in messy Kubernetes configurations and unnecessary risk. Trial-and-error efforts to adjust CPU and memory settings eats into engineering time and can result in over-provisioning data center capacity or cloud compute. Traditional monitoring tools are critical, but don’t provide everything needed to proactively identify changes to maintain reliable Kubernetes workloads.

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    Anthos

    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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    Google Cloud Run

    Google Cloud Run

    Google

    Fully managed compute platform for deploying and scaling containerized applications quickly and securely. Write code your way using your favorite languages (Go, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, and more). Abstract away all infrastructure management for a simple developer experience. Built upon an open standard Knative, enabling the portability of your applications. Write code your way by deploying any container that listens for requests or events. Build applications in your favorite language, with your favorite dependencies and tools, and deploy them in seconds. Cloud Run abstracts away all infrastructure management by automatically scaling up and down from zero almost instantaneously—depending on traffic. Cloud Run only charges you for the exact resources you use. Cloud Run makes app development and deployment simpler and faster. And it’s fully integrated with Cloud Code, Cloud Build, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging for an enhanced end-to-end developer experience.

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    Azure Container Instances

    Azure Container Instances

    Microsoft

    Run containers without managing servers By running your workloads in Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. Increase agility with containers on demand Deploy containers to the cloud with unprecedented simplicity and speed—with a single command. Use ACI to provision additional compute for demanding workloads whenever you need. For example, with the Virtual Kubelet, use ACI to elastically burst from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster when traffic comes in spikes. Secure applications with hypervisor isolation Gain the security of virtual machines for your container workloads, while preserving the efficiency of lightweight containers. ACI provides hypervisor isolation for each container group to ensure containers run in isolation without sharing a kernel.

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    XCrypt Data Encryption Platform

    XCrypt Data Encryption Platform

    Zettaset

    Customers worldwide choose Zettaset products for use in high performance, high availability and seamlessly scalable data environments. Zettaset products are designed to function with extremely low latency to support the most demanding deployment requirements, including high-speed transactions, in-memory databases, and real-time, web-based applications. The XCryptâ„¢ Data Encryption Platform has been designed from the ground up for optimal performance and scalability in distributed systems and elastic cloud environments. XCrypt introduces extremely low latency to the compute environment, making it ideal for in-memory stored data and transactional environments where sub-second response times are essential.

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    amazee.io

    amazee.io

    amazee.io

    amazee.io offers high-performance, flexible hosting solutions built for speed, security, and scalability. Whether you're running 500 decoupled Drupal sites, a single Laravel application, or a complex technology stack, Lagoon has the flexibility to accommodate any project thanks to containers. Our team of systems engineers is available to support your special requests and custom configurations. amazee.io takes security seriously, passing rigorous audits and offering a GDPR-compliant platform. Lagoon runs the latest technologies and is built to deliver the most performant development, deployment, and end-user experiences possible. We set up Lagoon to handle unplanned spikes in traffic and usage. Your server's resources will scale automatically when needed. Effortlessly create test environments for pull requests and branches. Full congruency across environments. Autoscales to handle fluctuating traffic.

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    ContainerShip

    ContainerShip

    ContainerShip

    ContainerShip is a software company based in the United States and offers a software product called ContainerShip. Pricing starts at $39.99/month/user. ContainerShip offers training via documentation, live online, and webinars. ContainerShip is container management software, and includes features such as access control, billing & provisioning, capacity analytics, cost management, demand monitoring, Multi-Cloud management, and performance analytics. ContainerShip offers business hours support, 24/7 live support, and online support. ContainerShip offers a free version, and free trial. ContainerShip is available as SaaS software. Some alternative products to ContainerShip include Spot Ocean, Fairwinds Insights, and Morpheus.

    Starting Price: $39.99/month/user
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What is Container Management?

Container management is the process of managing, adding, organizing, and replacing large numbers of software containers. Container management tools create, deploy, scale, and deconstruct systems and application containers.

Containerization is a part of software development that binds application libraries and dependencies together while isolating processes that share an operating system kernel down into one deployable unit.

IT businesses use containers to package legacy applications for better portability and easier deployment. They also use containers for applications that are based on distributed and cloud-based microservices.What is Container Management?

Container images all share one base operating system image, whereas virtual machines require their own OS image. This works to make containers lightweight and run only application configuration data and code that is needed from the operating system of the host. Compared to VM hosting, this set up, and design increases interoperability as each container can scale on its own when required.

Containers are rising in popularity as IT companies begin to adopt development and operations, which focus on rapid application deployment. Application code can be containerized from development to testing to the point where the software is deployed.

Container Management Benefits

  1. The foremost container management benefit is easier hosting setups. Schedulers and orchestration, virtual network management and monitoring systems, storage, and security tools are all included in container management.
  2. Companies can set specific policies that guarantee containers can share a host or not share a host-based on resource and application design requirements. IT administrators can find containers that frequently communicate to avoid dormancy.
  3. Anti-affinity rules might be necessary to avoid overload with physical storage for containers with large resource requirements. Containers can frequently work to meet demand and shut down.
  4. They need to communicate for distributed applications to function and not open an attack surface without becoming vulnerable to hackers.
  5. The container ecosystem focuses on automating many different processes, including log management, orchestration, networking, monitoring, load balancing, and secrets and testing management. By automating these processes, IT companies can manage large containerized environments that are too large for one person to handle.

Container Management Benefits

Container Management Issues

Container management can be complex, especially with open source orchestrating container platforms like Apache Mesos and Kubernetes. The installation and setup of these platforms can be error-filled and frustrating.

It is imperative that IT staff have the proper training and skills in container management. They need to understand the relationship between the host server clusters and the level at which the network corresponds to dependencies and applications.

Some of the challenges facing container management include storage and resolve. The containers themselves are designed only to exist when they are needed. Stateful app activities are problematic because any information created inside a container no longer exists when the container spins down.

Another concern is container security. There are several components to container orchestrators that include management and monitoring tools and an API server. These separate components make it popular among hackers.

Vulnerabilities are similar to operating system vulnerabilities as with access, authorization, network traffic, and images. By using best practices for security, organizations can minimize the risk associated with these issues. Taking action on closing network connections when they are not being used, and identifying trusted image sources should help.

Tool selection is another container management challenge. There are many container management software packages and tools available to IT businesses. Many companies hire consultants to handle the responsibilities of ensuring that all of the necessary components are together in the correct configuration and order based on the needs of the business.

Tips for Effective Container Management

To deploy and update applications quickly, large companies and new businesses rely on containers and container management software apps and tools.

  • IT companies have to establish the best possible infrastructure container setup. They should have a deep understanding of the scale and requirements needed for the containerization project as it applies to needs in terms of growth projections and developer requirements.
  • IT administrators should be knowledgeable on how the existing infrastructure’s components connect together and communicate while preserving these aspects of a containerized environment.
  • Containers are versatile and able to run on several different platforms, including VMs, in the cloud, on servers, or in hybrid setups. These preferences are all based on IT requirements for the business.
  • The container management platform or tool has to correspond to the needs of the project. Some of the project’s requirements may include user and application isolation, resource constraints and requirements, multi-tenancy, logging, alerts, monitoring, license and backup management, and many other management tasks.
  • Enterprises should have a complete understanding of their hosting requirements and a clear idea about their future container plans. Companies should know if they need to adopt a microservices architecture or multiple cloud platforms.Container Management Software Tools

Major Software Tools and Vendors for Container Management

Kubernetes is an authority on container management technology. It is open-source and works to automate processes while managing Docker containers.

Docker container technology was developed by Docker Inc. in 2013. Google launched Kubernetes in 2015 with major updates in the following years. Container technology has grown extremely popular among many large organizations.

There are also IT tools and commercial vendors that provide support for these open-source container management elements.

There are many different factors that organizations have to consider in selecting the best container management software to meet their needs. Because of the rapid changes in the container software market, organizations must be prepared and flexible to find the ideal solutions.

Some of those options may include programs like Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift, Alibaba Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), VMware Enterprise Pivotal Container Service, Rancher Labs’ Rancher, Cloud Foundry, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and others.

Tools for Container Deployment, Schedulers, and Container Orchestration

Open source communities and vendors have designed many different versions of Kubernetes. Kubernetes is one of the most widely used open-source container software for orchestration.

There are many projects that are developed to improve one single facet of the main container management. These can include cluster managers, service mesh, or configuration file editors.

Support and partnerships for Kubernetes come up and evolve on a regular basis. These programs work in tandem with Kubernetes to make tasks easier and more manageable.

One open source project that works on compute clusters is Mesos. It includes federation and container clusters. Mesos was created for larger container deployments.

Another commercial product D2iQ provides Mesosphere DC/OS, which is a commercial software designed based on Mesos that provides container orchestration with the convenience of hybrid cloud portability. D2iQ also provides a scheduler called Marathon that works with Kubernetes.

The technology behind Mesos is different from Kubernetes in how it manages the federation. Mesos treats it as a peer grouping of deployments that cooperate. Kubernetes federation is more rigid with a master-agent relationship. Operators are united by the master to support common goals.

The federation functionality of Kubernetes is in a suspended state where the original version is obsolete, and they recommend the upgrade to the next version 2.0.

The swarm mode from Docker’s is an open-source container cluster management tool. Another company, Mirantis, recently bought out the enterprise division of Docker Inc. This acquisition included Docker Swarm’s commercial edition.

Container management software categories are seemingly blending as platforms add support for more management capabilities.

The technology of container management is starting to merge and connect with large scale management suites designed for VMs and server hosts.