Azure Container Apps vs. Podman.io

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Apps
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Azure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).N/A
Podman
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.N/A
Pricing
Azure Container AppsPodman.io
Editions & Modules
vCPU (seconds)
active usage $0.000024 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 180,000 vCPU-seconds free grant per month
Memory (GiB-Seconds)
active usage $0.000003 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 360,000 GiB-seconds free grant per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container AppsPodman
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Azure Container AppsPodman.io
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
5.4
2 Ratings
37% below category average
Podman.io
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces5.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability5.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control4.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration4.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation4.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes6.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
-
Ratings
Podman.io
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Container AppsPodman.io
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container AppsPodman.io
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps is a welcome addition for sure. Based on my experience, this has enabled us to move fully to the cloud and managed everywhere in one spot and on the go. We can scale it to our end as much as we would like. It can be assess anywhere and it is fully secure
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Open Source
While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Gives user a level of autonomous access
  • No control plane or node pool to manage
  • Less kubernetes experience required
  • Easily integrate with Azure devops
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Open Source
  • It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
  • It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
  • Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
  • It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Continue to enhance security
  • Better pricing
  • Flexibility
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Open Source
  • Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
  • Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
  • It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
I would rather use AKS for my critical applications. The fact that the deployment process is dependent on as cli makes it hard for us to integrate with our standard CI/CD tools
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Usability
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps are fantastic and it is a game changer. I would recommend it to anyone considering it. As you can scale it to what you would like and it is fully cloud native with better security. It is a no brainier not to consider it. I do believe that with further improve it will become even more attractive
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Open Source
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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Open Source
Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • As it is cloud native, we no longer required to have onsite prem
  • Reducing both from an energy and security perspective
  • It is worth the investment as we have saved about 10% of our ICT cost
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Open Source
  • We definitely feel more secure.
  • We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
  • We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
  • It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.
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