Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Caylent 2.0
Fully managed Docker Swarm in your own cloud.
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. Caylent 2.0 launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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StackEngine▲59Simply scale and orchestrate your docker applications
2014 · oracle.com · its alternatives →
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balenaCloud: Manage fleets of IoT Linux devices with balena’s cloud platform. First 10 devices are free. Develop, deploy, and scale your IoT fleet.
2015 · resin.io · its alternatives →
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Portworx▲60Container-Aware Infrastructure For Enterprise Applications
2015 · portworx.com · its alternatives →
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Kite▲62Super fast web dev environment setup, built on Docker
2014 · usekite.github.io · its alternatives →
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A Docker container in your browser. Contribute to codetainerapp/codetainer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, auto-scaling Docker Swarm cluster template for Azure - rcarmo/azure-docker-swarm-cluster
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · blog.zanconsulting.com · its alternatives →
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Sandockfrom $5/mo▲8Persistent Docker Workspaces for Coding Agents
Apr 2026 · sandock.ai · its alternatives →
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I've been a big fan of fly.io with it’s devx, but cold starts and pricing have been a consistent problem. Even for side projects it's painful if they take 30s to load, it just kills the whole experience. With coding agents becoming good, there were a lot more things I started building, and I just wanted to run all of those things! GCI was built to solve this. It’s just a CLI, just uses ssh to interact with your target machine, and relies on docker swarm to get your services running (docker swarm is IMO underrated, providing benefits even with a single node). It can deploy on any machine that…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A marketplace for trusted and validated dockerized software
2016 · hub.docker.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've posted this a few weeks back without much HN traction - today we've added a free community tier, so anyone can try it out. TL;DR: We’ve launched StableBuild, a new tool to easily freeze and pin Docker images, operating system packages, Python packages, and arbitrary build dependencies; in 5 lines of code: https://stablebuild.com . As the CTO at an ML startup w/ 75 people (https://edgeimpulse.com/) I’ve grown incredibly frustrated with non-deterministic builds. Last year basically every week one of our containers (we have 40+ unique ones in prod)…
2024 · stablebuild.com · its alternatives →
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A Docker Orchestrator for the IOT\Distrubuated apps age
2017 · nebula.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →
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Load-balancing Docker containers with Nginx and Consul-Template October 30, […]
2014 · tech.bellycard.com · its alternatives →
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