Azure Container Instances vs. Podman.io

Azure Container Instances

19 Reviews and Ratings

Podman.io

7 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Container Instances	Score10 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
Podman	Score9.6 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 Instances

Podman

Memory: $0.00533
Per GB Per Hour
vCPU: $0.04860
Per vCPU

No answers on this topic

Pricing Offerings
Azure Container Instances	Podman
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Features

Azure Container Instances

Podman

Comparison of Container Management features of Azure Container Instances and Podman.io
Feature	Azure Container Instances - Ratings	Podman.io 10.0 1 Ratings 20% above category average
Security and Isolation	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure Container Instances	Podman
Small Businesses	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score8 out of 10	Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Score8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.6 out of 10	Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Score8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	SUSE Rancher Score9.4 out of 10	SUSE Rancher Score9.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure Container Instances	Podman
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Container Instances	Podman
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Microsoft No answers on this topic	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 Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft No answers on this topic	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 Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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