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What is rkt?

rkt (pronounced "rocket") was a container runtime designed to be composable, secure, and interoperable. It was an alternative to Docker, emphasizing security and standard container formats. rkt used a pod-native approach, running each application container in its own separate process namespace, and was designed to integrate well with systemd. While it gained some traction, it is now considered to be in maintenance mode and is not actively developed.

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What other technologies are related to rkt?

rkt Competitor Technologies

Singularity

Singularity is a containerization technology, thus a direct competitor to rkt, although it focuses on HPC environments.

mentioned alongside rkt in 2% (55) of relevant job posts

Docker

Docker is a dominant containerization technology and a direct competitor to rkt.

mentioned alongside rkt in 0% (508) of relevant job posts

rkt Complementary Technologies

Mesos

Mesos is a cluster manager that could utilize rkt as a container runtime. Although Mesos support has waned, it is still considered complementary.

mentioned alongside rkt in 1% (58) of relevant job posts

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that originally supported rkt as a runtime. While support has decreased, they are still considered complementary.

mentioned alongside rkt in 0% (427) of relevant job posts

OpenShift

OpenShift is a container platform that uses Kubernetes and could potentially run rkt, making it complementary. However, this is not common.

mentioned alongside rkt in 0% (77) of relevant job posts