10 alternatives to compose

docker/compose — Define and run multi-container applications with Docker (38,487 stars, Apache-2.0, infra, integration, payments).

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 212 licence-cleared components from docker/compose itself.

The alternatives in detail

• winboat-org/winboat
  Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration
  score 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 23,267 stars · 47 components · search them · alternatives
• wagoodman/dive
  A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
  score 3.1/10 · MIT permissive · 54,662 stars · 78 components · search them
• kimdre/doco-cd
  Docker Compose Continuous Deployment
  score 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,747 stars · 330 components · search them
• abiosoft/colima
  Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 31,388 stars · 98 components · search them · alternatives
• jupyter/docker-stacks
  Ready-to-run Docker images containing Jupyter applications
  score 4.2/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 8,472 stars · 39 components · search them
• louislam/dockge
  A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager
  score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 24,688 stars · 62 components · search them · alternatives
• portainer/portainer
  Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
  score 4.6/10 · Zlib permissive · 38,709 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
• coollabsio/coolify
  An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 360+ one-click services on your own servers.
  score 6.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 64,365 stars · 1,610 components · search them · alternatives
• swarmpit/swarmpit
  Lightweight AI-friendly Docker Swarm management
  score 6.3/10 · EPL-1.0 weak-copyleft · 3,501 stars · 5 components · search them
• mailu/mailu
  Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 7,594 stars · 90 components · search them

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