Compare the Top Container Management Software for Mac as of April 2025

What is Container Management Software for Mac?

Container management software platforms help organizations deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications across multiple environments. These platforms streamline the orchestration of containers, allowing businesses to automate the deployment, scaling, and operation of application containers. They typically support Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration technologies to manage clusters of containers. Container management platforms improve efficiency by enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than worrying about the underlying infrastructure. They also provide monitoring, logging, and security features to ensure that applications run smoothly and securely in production. Compare and read user reviews of the best Container Management software for Mac currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.
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    Percona Kubernetes Operator
    The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB automates the creation, alteration, or deletion of members in your Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB environment. It can be used to instantiate a new Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set, or to scale an existing environment. The Operator contains all necessary Kubernetes settings to provide a proper and consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB instance. The Percona Kubernetes Operators are based on best practices for configuration and setup of a Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set. The benefits of the Operator are many but saving time and delivering a consistent and vetted environment is key.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Portainer Business
    Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.
    Starting Price: Free
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    K8Studio

    K8Studio

    K8Studio

    Welcome to K8 Studio, your ultimate cross-platform client IDE for effortless Kubernetes cluster management. Seamlessly deploy to popular platforms such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or your dedicated bare metal setup. Experience the power of connecting to your cluster with an intuitive interface, providing a visual representation of nodes, pods, services, and more. Gain instant access to logs, detailed element descriptions, and a bash terminal, all with a simple click. Elevate your Kubernetes experience with K8Studio's user-friendly features. The grid view allows for a comprehensive tabular display of all Kubernetes objects. The left bar enables the selection of specific object types, and this view is entirely interactive and updated in real time. Users can seamlessly search and filter objects by namespace, and rearrange columns. Organizes workloads, services, ingresses, and volumes by namespace and instance. Visualize object connections for a rapid pod count and status check.
    Starting Price: $17 per month
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    Loft

    Loft

    Loft Labs

    Most Kubernetes platforms let you spin up and manage Kubernetes clusters. Loft doesn't. Loft is an advanced control plane that runs on top of your existing Kubernetes clusters to add multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to these clusters to get the full value out of Kubernetes beyond cluster management. Loft provides a powerful UI and CLI but under the hood, it is 100% Kubernetes, so you can control everything via kubectl and the Kubernetes API, which guarantees great integration with existing cloud-native tooling. Building open-source software is part of our DNA. Loft Labs is CNCF and Linux Foundation member. Loft allows companies to empower their employees to spin up low-cost, low-overhead Kubernetes environments for a variety of use cases.
    Starting Price: $25 per user per month
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Helm

    Helm

    The Linux Foundation

    Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications, Helm charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Charts are easy to create, version, share, and publish, so start using Helm and stop the copy-and-paste. Charts describe even the most complex apps, provide repeatable application installation, and serve as a single point of authority. Take the pain out of updates with in-place upgrades and custom hooks. Charts are easy to version, share, and host on public or private servers. Use helm rollback to roll back to an older version of a release with ease. Helm uses a packaging format called charts. A chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources. A single chart might be used to deploy something simple, like a memcached pod, or something complex, like a full web app stack with HTTP servers, databases, caches, and so on.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Lens

    Lens

    Mirantis

    Kubernetes is the OS for the cloud. Thousands of businesses and people develop and operate their Kubernetes on Lens — The largest and most advanced Kubernetes platform in the world. Lens Desktop works with any Kubernetes. It removes complexity and increases productivity. It’s used by everyone — from devs to ops and startups to large companies. Expand functionality with Lens Spaces — a cloud based service. It organizes your existing Kubernetes environments and provides Managed Dev Clusters for your team. Lens is built on open source with vibrant community and is backed by Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem pioneers. The smart terminal comes with kubectl and helm, automatically syncing the version of kubectl to match the currently selected K8S cluster API version. Lens will automatically assign the kubeconfig context to match the currently selected K8s cluster.
    Starting Price: $9 per user per month
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    IronWorker

    IronWorker

    Iron.io

    Container based workloads, full GPU support, autoscaling, custom built solutions. Let Worker take care of your jobs so you can focus on your application. A hosted background job solution that lets you run your containers with dynamic scale, detailed analytics and world class customer support. Run short lived containers quickly, or even containers needing to work across multiple days. Whether it's a one-off job, or one that needs 1000's of workers running in parallel, we've got you covered. Containerize your background tasks with confidence. Run your containers on our shared infrastructure. Dedicated hardware for your workloads. A great option when you need consistent performance and throughput. Our autoscale technology helps you scale up and down based on your usage. You run workers on your own hardware, and we take care of the authentication, scheduling, and everything else. If you have access to your own infrastructure and/or have higher security needs, this is often a great fit.
    Starting Price: $4.99 per month
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    Swarm

    Swarm

    Docker

    Current versions of Docker include swarm mode for natively managing a cluster of Docker Engines called a swarm. Use the Docker CLI to create a swarm, deploy application services to a swarm, and manage swarm behavior. Cluster management integrated with Docker Engine: Use the Docker Engine CLI to create a swarm of Docker Engines where you can deploy application services. You don’t need additional orchestration software to create or manage a swarm. Decentralized design: Instead of handling differentiation between node roles at deployment time, the Docker Engine handles any specialization at runtime. You can deploy both kinds of nodes, managers and workers, using the Docker Engine. This means you can build an entire swarm from a single disk image. Declarative service model: Docker Engine uses a declarative approach to let you define the desired state of the various services in your application stack.
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    MicroK8s

    MicroK8s

    Canonical

    Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes, for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT. MicroK8s automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore. When you lose a cluster database node, another node is promoted. No admin needed for your bulletproof edge. MicroK8s is small, with sensible defaults that ‘just work’. A quick install, easy upgrades and great security make it perfect for micro clouds and edge computing. Full enterprise support available, with no subscription needed. Optional 24/7 support with 10 year security maintenance. Under the cell tower. On the racecar. On satellites or everyday appliances, MicroK8s delivers the full Kubernetes experience on IoT and micro clouds. Fully containerized deployment with compressed over-the-air updates for ultra-reliable operations. MicroK8s will apply security updates automatically by default, defer them if you want. Upgrade to a newer version of Kubernetes with a single command. It’s really that easy.
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    Slim.AI

    Slim.AI

    Slim.AI

    Easily connect your own private registries and share images with your team. Explore the world’s largest public registries to find the right container image for your project. If you don’t know what’s in your containers, you can’t have software security. The Slim platform lifts the veil on container internals so you can analyze, optimize, and compare changes across multiple containers or versions. Use DockerSlim, our open-source project, to automatically optimize your container images. Remove bulky or dangerous packages, so you ship only what you need to produce. Find out how the Slim platform can help your team automatically improve software and supply chain security, tune containers for development, testing, and production, and ship secure container-based apps to the cloud. Accounts are free and there is no charge to use the platform at this time. We're container enthusiasts, not salespeople, so know that your privacy and security are the founding principles of our business.
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    kpt

    kpt

    kpt

    kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at scale by manipulating declarative configuration as data, separated from the code that transforms it. Most Kubernetes users either manage their resources using conventional imperative graphical user interfaces, command-line tools (kubectl), and automation (e.g., operators) that operate directly against Kubernetes APIs, or declarative configuration tools, such as Helm, Terraform, cdk8s, or one of the dozens of other tools. At a small scale, this is largely driven by preference and familiarity. As companies expand the number of Kubernetes development and production clusters they use, creating and enforcing consistent configurations and security policies across a growing environment becomes difficult.
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    WhaleDeck

    WhaleDeck

    WhaleDeck

    Simplify your Docker workflow with WhaleDeck, the ultimate app for monitoring and controlling your Docker containers. With a user-friendly interface and powerful features, WhaleDeck is the only tool you need to manage your Docker environment. Monitor your containers with ease, thanks to WhaleDeck's real-time visualization of CPU, memory, drive and network usage. Keep track of your container logs and quickly identify issues with the built-in log viewer. And with support for multiple servers at once, you can easily manage all of your Docker environments from one place. Take control of your containers with the ability to run actions like start, stop, and pause on a single container or at multiple containers at once. And with the Split View feature, you can work more productively by seeing multiple parts of your Docker environment side by side. Whether you're a developer, DevOps engineer, or just someone who needs to manage Docker containers, WhaleDeck makes it simple.
    Starting Price: $19.99
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