25 open-source Virtualisation & Containers vendors.

Open-source software for Virtualisation & Containers that you can self-host, with auditable source code — regardless of the developer's headquarters.

• Apache CloudStackSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source IaaS platform for cloud orchestration, Apache Software Foundation.

  United States

• bhyveSelf-hosted / open source

  Native Type 2 hypervisor built into the FreeBSD kernel since version 10.0, maintained by the FreeBSD Foundation.

  United States

• FirecrackerSelf-hosted / open source

  US lightweight microVM monitor from AWS for fast, secure isolation of serverless workloads, boots in 125ms.

  United States

• GardenerSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source Kubernetes-as-a-Service for scalable cluster management, governed by the NeoNephos Foundation (Linux Foundation Europe) since 2025

  Germany

• Giant SwarmEU sovereign

  German managed Kubernetes platform for enterprise cloud-native infrastructure

  Germany

• HarvesterSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution by SUSE

  Luxembourg · owner in Sweden

• IncludeOSSelf-hosted / open source

  Norwegian minimal unikernel operating system (Oslo, founded 2015) for C++ cloud services, boots in milliseconds.

  Norway

• IncusSelf-hosted / open source

  Community-governed fork of LXD (Apache-2.0), created in 2023 after Canonical pulled LXD's governance in-house; sits under the independent Linux Containers project, with infrastructure sponsored by Canada-based Zabbly (project lead Stéphane Graber).

  Canada

• K3sSelf-hosted / open source

  Lightweight Kubernetes distribution by SUSE for edge and IoT applications

  Luxembourg · owner in Sweden

• Kata ContainersSelf-hosted / open source

  Secure, lightweight VM runtime for containers from the OpenStack Foundation, combining container speed with VM isolation for Kubernetes.

  United States

• KubermaticEU sovereign

  German enterprise Kubernetes platform for multi-cloud container management

  Germany

• KubernetesSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source container orchestration (Apache-2.0) under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation, US); runs on EU infrastructure of your choice.

  United States

• KubeVirtSelf-hosted / open source

  KubeVirt is a CNCF project that extends Kubernetes to run traditional virtual machines alongside containers on the same cluster.

  United States

• Linbit DRBD/LINSTORSelf-hosted / open source

  Austrian open-source distributed block device and storage orchestration for HA virtualization clusters.

  Austria

• LXDSelf-hosted / open source

  UK container-and-VM hypervisor platform from Canonical (maker of Ubuntu).

  United Kingdom

• MicroCloudSelf-hosted / open source

  MicroCloud is an open-source clustering solution from Canonical that combines LXD, MicroCeph and MicroOVN into a small, self-hostable private cloud cluster.

  United Kingdom

• OpenNebulaSelf-hosted / open source

  Spanish open-source platform for sovereign cloud and virtualisation infrastructure.

  Spain

• Oracle VM VirtualBoxSelf-hosted / open source

  US cross-platform desktop hypervisor by Oracle, core open-source (GPLv3).

  United States

• oVirtSelf-hosted / open source

  oVirt is an open-source KVM-based virtualization management platform, continuing as a community project as Red Hat winds down its commercial Red Hat Virtualization product.

  United States

• Proxmox VESelf-hosted / open source

  Austrian open-source virtualisation platform for VMs and containers

  Austria

• SUSE Linux EnterpriseSelf-hosted / open source

  Enterprise Linux distribution by SUSE for servers, cloud and edge computing

  Luxembourg · owner in Sweden

• SUSE RancherEU sovereign

  Enterprise Kubernetes management platform by SUSE (Luxembourg)

  Luxembourg · owner in Sweden

• Virt-ManagerSelf-hosted / open source

  Virt-Manager is a graphical management tool for QEMU/KVM, Xen and LXC virtualization via libvirt, maintained by the Fedora/Red Hat community.

  United States

• XCP-ngSelf-hosted / open source

  French open-source virtualisation platform based on Xen, alternative to VMware

  France

• Xen OrchestraSelf-hosted / open source

  French web-based management platform for XCP-ng and XenServer virtualisation

  France