Personally I think if you are looking for a container management solution in today’s world, you have to invest your time in Kubernetes (k8s). There is no doubt about that because of multiple factors. To the best of my undestanding, these points include: Kubernetes is Open Source Great momentum in terms of activities & contribution at its Open Source Project Decades of experience running its predecessor at Google Support of multiple OS and infrastructure software vendors Rate at which features are being released Production readiness (Damn it, Pokemon Go met its scale due to Kubernetes) Number of features available. Check out the list of features at the home page . The general perception about a management solution like Kubernetes is that it would require quite a bit of setup for you to try it out locally. What this means is that it would take some time to set it up but more than setting it up, you might probably get access to it only during staging phase or so...