Azure Container Instances vs. Docker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Instances
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Container Instances allows developers to focus on building apps without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just the application, in a container, running in the cloud.
$0.01
Per GB Per Hour
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Docker Enterprise was sold to Mirantis in 2019; that product is now sold as Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. But Docker now offers a 2-product suite that includes Docker Desktop, which they present as a fast way to containerize applications on a desktop; and, Docker Hub, a service for finding and sharing container images with a team and the Docker community, a repository of container images with an array of…
$5
per month
Pricing
Azure Container InstancesDocker
Editions & Modules
Memory
$0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU
$0.04860
Per vCPU
Free
$0
unlimited public repositories
Pro
$5.00
per month per user
Team
$7.00
per month per user
Business
$21
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container InstancesDocker
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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Community Pulse
Azure Container InstancesDocker
Considered Both Products
Azure Container Instances

No answer on this topic

Docker
Chose Docker
We need a solution where initially we can use an OS to trigger our pipeline to be used by terraform and then later in ansible. After doing all work it automatically get exited and we can reclaim the space of our VM. So we created a gitlab pipeline and at the initial stage we …
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Azure Container InstancesDocker
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Docker
Docker
Score 9.2 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Container InstancesDocker
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container InstancesDocker
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
You are going to be able to find the most resources and examples using Docker whenever you are working with a container orchestration software like Kubernetes. There will always some entropy when you run in a container, a containerized application will never be as purely performant as an app running directly on the OS. However, in most scenarios this loss will be negligible to the time saved in deployment, monitoring, etc.
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Pros
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
  • Packaging of application to limit the space occupied
  • Ease of running the application
  • Provide multiple ways to handle the application issues and integration of different components like pipeline, ansible, terraform etc
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Cons
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
  • Docker hub image retention policy can be relaxed
  • Docker hub policies can be more developer friendly
  • Docker CLI help section can be improved
  • Image and container storage (local) management can be optimized
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
Very easy to use, great tutorials, documentation and cheat sheets out there to help you become a Docker Wiz
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
Haven't seen any outages, fatal/unrecoverable errors in my usage so far. Enough said.
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
Docker Desktop. The CPU high usage is a known issue. Needs fixing. Otherwise, it is great overall. Would not use anything else still.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
The reason why we are still using Docker right now is due to that is the best among its peers and suits our needs the best. However, the trend we foresee for the future might indicate Amazon lambda could potentially fit our needs to code enviornmentless in the near future.
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
It is the only tool in our toolset that has not [had] any issues so far. That is really a mark of reliability, and it's a testimony to how well the product is made, and a tool that does its job well is a tool well worth having. It is the base tool that I would say any organisation must have if they do scalable deployment.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Docker
  • Reduces the number of virtual machine which impacted our quarterly billing
  • Using docker with proxy we run multiple application on same port on same host.
  • impact on billing is we have to provide docker training to the people who are working on it.
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