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24 alternatives to Build .NET Core Apps for Raspberry Pi with Docker

There is now an official Docker image from Microsoft that can run .NET Core applications on your Raspberry Pi. Let's find out how in this hands-on guide.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Build .NET Core Apps for Raspberry Pi with Docker launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Get into physical computing with Docker and Raspberry Pi - alexellis/docker-blinkt-workshop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OrbStack▲170

    Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS

    2023 · orbstack.dev · its alternatives →

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    A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - alexellis/growlab

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    pi pod runs your pi session in a cloud pod. pipod.dev

    21d ago · pipod.dev · its alternatives →

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    Turn a Raspberry Pi into your home cloud

    2024 · umbrel.com · its alternatives →

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    Official version of Windows 10 that supports Raspberry Pi 2

    2015 · developer.microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    I have realized that a lot of people nowadays self-host services and set up home labs with mini racks. One major pain point I have come across personally is to quickly get health status from self-hosted services and machines, and have the ability to headlessly control my Raspberry Pi inside a mini rack. So It got me thinking about building a built-in GUI that users can easily add to their Raspberry Pi nodes in their (mini or full) racks or elsewhere. I have previously designed this GUI for an open source project I have been working on (called Ubo pod: github.com/ubopod) and decided to…

    2025 · getubo.com · its alternatives →

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    A Virtualised Raspberry Pi inside a Docker image. Contribute to lukechilds/dockerpi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A step-by-step guide how to create a simple OS from scratch.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build cross platform desktop apps with .NET Core

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An intuitive, versatile, and powerful home server operating system for self-hosting. Featuring a curated app store and seamless multi-platform support, it’s designed to empower your personal cloud on Raspberry Pi, x86 systems, or your preferred setup. - BansheeTech/HomeDockOS

    2025 · homedock.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Serverless VPN on WireGuard® for Raspberry Pi

    2023 · upvpn.app · its alternatives →

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    App Container runtime (Docker alternative)

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Runme.io▲116

    Run your application from any public Git repo with one click

    2020 · runme.io · its alternatives →

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    dockerized (postgres + nginx + golang + react). Contribute to karlkeefer/pngr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Keystone▲125

    We kept hitting the same wall: you clone some arbitrary repo and just want it to run without any configuration work. So we built Keystone, an open source tool that spins up a Modal sandbox, runs Claude Code inside it, and produces a working .devcontainer/ config (Dockerfile, devcontainer.json, test runner) for any git repo. We build on the dev container standard, so the output works with VS Code and GitHub Codespaces out of the box. Main use cases: reproducible dev/CI environments, self-describing repos, and safely sandboxed coding agents. Our goal is to encourage all repos to…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Try .net core directly on the browser

    2019 · dotnetfiddle.net · its alternatives →

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    Contrary to widespread believe Docker runs perfectly fine on ARM devices. To prove this we created a Get-Docker-Up-And-Running-On-Your-Pi-In-No-Time SD card image. It is meant for the Raspberry Pi 1 & 2. Just flash our image to your SD card and enjoy instant Docker-awesomeness. Find it here: http://blog.hypriot.com/heavily-armed-after-major-upgrade-raspberry-pi-with-docker-1-dot-5-0 The image includes: - Linux Kernel 3.18.8 - Docker 1.5.0 - OverlayFS

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Windows pod system for Linux. Contribute to kernalix7/winpodx development by creating an account on GitHub.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Git-integrated GPU workloads, push to deploy & pull results

    2024 · aisilicon.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I just saw this tweet[^1] by @QuinnyPig that mentions accessing your Pi-hole while traveling thanks to TailScale and wondered how to deploy Pi-hole at the edge, instead of a home lab, for improved latency. My simple solution involves running it on Fly.io to make it easy to relocate anywhere, and embedding tailscale into the same firecracker VM (né docker container) to keep the infra dead simple and cheap. Naively deploying a publicly accessible DNS resolver is not ideal[^2] so the main constraint was to secure the VM by 1) keeping all public ports closed and 2) having Pi-hole listen only…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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