Docker vs. Firecracker
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Docker | Score8.9 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 |
Firecracker | Score4 out of 10 | N/A | Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker enables users to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs that may provide security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services with the goal of improving services like AWS Lambda… | N/A |
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100% Delivers good value for the price 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 14 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 11 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | Proxmox VE Score9.2 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score10 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | JFrog Artifactory Score8.2 out of 10 | ![]() IBM PowerVM Score9.6 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 10.0 | 4.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.1 | - |
| Usability | 10.0 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 8.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |
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