Best Container Management Software Platforms for OpenStack

Kubernetes (K8s), an open-source software that automates deployment, scaling and management of containerized apps, is available as an open-source project. It organizes containers that make up an app into logical units, which makes it easy to manage and discover. Kubernetes is based on 15 years of Google's experience in running production workloads. It also incorporates best-of-breed practices and ideas from the community. Kubernetes is built on the same principles that allow Google to run billions upon billions of containers per week. It can scale without increasing your operations team. Kubernetes flexibility allows you to deliver applications consistently and efficiently, no matter how complex they are, whether you're testing locally or working in a global enterprise. Kubernetes is an open-source project that allows you to use hybrid, on-premises, and public cloud infrastructures. This allows you to move workloads where they are most important.

Cloud Foundry makes it easier to build, test and deploy applications faster. It offers a variety of cloud, developer frameworks and application services. It is open-source and available through a variety private cloud distributions as well as public cloud instances. Cloud Foundry uses a container-based architecture to run apps in any programming language. You can deploy apps to CF with your existing tools and without any modifications to the code. With CF BOSH, you can instantly deploy, manage, and manage Kubernetes clusters that are high-availability. You can decouple applications from infrastructure to make individual decisions about where to host workloads. This allows you to move workloads as needed in minutes with no changes to your app.

Cloud native infrastructure provisioning and management doesn't need to be difficult. It can be as easy as point-and click. Mirantis Container Cloud gives developers and administrators the ability to deploy Kubernetes or OpenStack environments from one pane of glass. This includes hosted bare metal, on-prem, and public clouds. No more scheduling and updating. Access new features faster, with zero downtime for workloads and clusters. Your developers will be able to create, monitor, and manage Kubernetes Clusters with ease, using custom guardrails. Mirantis Container Cloud provides a single platform to manage all aspects of your hybrid infrastructure estate. Mirantis Container Cloud deploys and manages Mirantis Kubernetes Engine container deployments as well as Mirantis OpenStack virtualization environments.

Kata Containers is Apache 2 software. It consists of two main components: Kata Agent and Kata Containerd Shim v2 runtime. It also includes a Linux kernel, versions of QEMU and Cloud Hypervisor, as well as Firecracker hypervisors. Kata Containers are light and fast, integrate with container management layers (including popular orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and offer the security benefits of VMs. Kata Containers currently supports Linux (host or guest). We have instructions for installing several popular distributions on the host side. Clear Linux, Fedora and CentOS 7 rootfs images are available out-of-the box through the OSBuilder. This can also be used to roll guest images.