Given the amount of information that is out there on the internet and that I spent quite a few hours trying to find other open source projects / cloud platforms that could be other alternatives, I thought why not make a post linking to all the platforms I have come across during my search, this way it will help someone else to simply click thru opening new tabs.

The hypervisors (they only support VMs):

• vmware ESXi
• XenServer
• Oracle VM (based off Xen server project above)
• Microsoft Hyper-V

The hybrids (allows VMs and containers at the same time under the same host – no need to spin up VMs for containers)

• SmartOS
• Proxmox VE
• Apache Mesos
• Mesosphere DC/OS Open source

Obviously you can also run containers on linux without using a bare-metal hypervisor like the options above. All you need to do is install Docker. But how are you going to manage/monitor/deploy your containers? command line is an option but there’s tools out there.

Container orchestration tools

• Cloudslang
• Kubernetes (the 500lb gorilla of orchestration tools)
• Kontena
• Apache CloudStack (this seems to manage only hypervisors and not containers)
• Marathon (for Mesos and DC/OS)
• Portainer
• Shipyard
• Panamax
• Rancher (a complete platform for running containers – highly complex)

Kubernetes addons:

• Cockpit (multi-server web management)

An interesting platform seems to be Mirantis OpenStack – if you are willing to put in the effort and deploy several of its plugins it looks like you would be able to host VMs, containers and have a web front-end to manage them all. Since this is not a single solution and it requires you to deploy several plugins I am leaving this uncategorized for now.