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2 self-hosted Kubernetes alternatives

Open-source container orchestration platform for deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications across clusters. Provides scheduling, service discovery, rolling updates, and resource management; commonly offered as managed services by cloud providers.

Alternatives to Kubernetes

Lightweight web-based platform to manage Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes resources with a GUI and API, including access control and multi-environment operations.

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38.4k stars2.9k forksZliblast commit Actively maintained

Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secrets.

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2.9k stars120 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Kubernetes actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Zlib, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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