5 alternatives to container

apple/container — A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. (50,828 stars, Apache-2.0, infra, dev-tools, cli).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 352 licence-cleared components from apple/container itself.

The alternatives in detail

• kata-containers/kata-containers
  Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and secur
  score 6.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,993 stars · 948 components · search them
• lakr233/vphone-cli
  Run a virtual iPhone on an Apple Silicon Mac.
  score 5.8/10 · MIT permissive · 15,889 stars · 829 components · search them
• utmapp/utm
  Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
  score 5.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 36,318 stars · 293 components · search them · alternatives
• givip/telegrammer
  Telegram Bot - written with Swift 5.2 / NIO, supports Linux, macOS
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 303 stars · 76 components · search them
• drakulavich/kesha-voice-kit
  Kesha listens and talks back: local speech to text and text to speech for agents and scripts, fastest on Apple Silicon.
  score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 79 stars · 237 components · search them

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