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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Podman

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APodman 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

    UpCloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.

    $0.09

    per month per GB

    Pricing
    PodmanUpCloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Private Cloud Storage
    €0.085
    per month per GB
    Block Storage - Standard
    €0.085
    per month
    Block Storage - MaxIOPS
    €0.220
    per month
    SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
    €3.15
    per month
    Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
    €2,499
    per month
    Cloud Servers - General Purpose
    Starting from €7
    per month
    GPU Servers
    Starting from €1.111
    per hour
    Cloud Servers - High CPU
    Starting from €130
    per month
    Cloud Servers - Developer
    Starting from €3
    per month
    Cloud Servers - High Memory
    Starting from €40
    per month
    Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
    Starting from €12
    per month
    Relational Databases - 1 Node
    Starting from €30
    per month
    Managed Object Storage
    starting from €5
    per month 250GB
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PodmanUpCloud
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Exact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
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    Features
    PodmanUpCloud
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Podman.io and UpCloud
    Feature
    Podman.io
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    UpCloud
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Podman.io and UpCloud
    Feature
    Podman.io
    -
    Ratings
    UpCloud
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
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    PodmanUpCloud
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PodmanUpCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PodmanUpCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    UpCloud
    If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
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    Pros
    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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    UpCloud
    • Pricing
    • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
    • Great customer service
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    Cons
    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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    UpCloud
    • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
    • A control panel function would be useful
    • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    UpCloud
    We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    UpCloud
    • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
    • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
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