We performed a comparison between Docker and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Docker is that it provides a containerized environment. The isolation between the environments is beneficial. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"Containerization is the most valuable feature. I can communicate to the Docker containers using other containers."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is its integration with other solutions, such as KVM and AlmaLinux."
"It is neat and very flexible."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives you the same environment as on a developer machine as well as a production machine relevant to specifications."
"The most valuable features of Docker are its security, detailed documentation, and ease of use, and the Docker Swarm is not as complex as Kubernetes."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"The initial setup was easy, and you are only required to run commands."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The solution is stable."
"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"I would love to have it available on Linux."
"The solution is not easy to manage and it is one of the reasons why people introduce orchestration tools to manage it."
"The command line interface could be more intuitive. I constantly struggle with it."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"We are facing multiple issues with the solution's stability."
"The security layer is very vulnerable, although they are working to improve the system hardening and email hardening."
"They should provide proper documentation to understand the solution's cgroup process."
"Marketing of Docker is one area that needs to improve."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"Could be more intuitive."
Docker is ranked 7th in Container Management with 40 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews. Docker is rated 8.6, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and Codespaces, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Google Kubernetes Engine. See our Docker vs. Rancher Labs report.
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