Alternative to Kubernetes

Kubernetes, is a solution to manage containerized applications. But have we ever imagined what might be an alternative to Kubernetes ?

Below are few other solutions to manage as well, and these solutions are also popular:

1. Docker Swarm: Docker Swarm is native clustering for Docker. It turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual Docker host. Because, Docker swarm serves the standard Docker API, any tool that already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts. Few of the supported tools:

(a) Docker client
(b) Dokku
(c) Docker Compose
(d) Docker Machine
(e) Jenkins

Reference: Docker Swarm Overview

2. Apache Mesos: Apache Mesos is a great platform for fine grained resource sharing in the data center.

Reference: Apache Mesos Intro

3. Nomad: Nomad is a tool for managing a cluster of machines and running applications on them. Nomad abstracts away machines and the location of applications, and instead enable users to declare what they want to run and Nomad handles where they should run and how to run them.

Reference: Nomad Project

4. Marathon: Marathon is the framework that lets you orchestrate containers.

Reference: Marathon Intro