Why Docker Business over Alternatives
Docker Business empowers your development team and engineering organization
Alternatives offer only partial solutions
Rapidly ship high-quality secure applications
Docker Business empowers development teams and engineering organizations to boost productivity, enhance security, and foster innovation, ultimately enabling developers to spend more time on delivering competitive advantages and value to their businesses through high-quality applications.
Benefits of Docker Business over alternative approaches
Streamline enterprise administration
Docker Business offers centralized management with a web-based console that includes compliance, adoption insights, and productivity metrics. Alternatives lack centralized admin, adoption insights, and robust enterprise admin capabilities.
Increase developer team and engineering organization productivity
Docker Business enhances productivity with robust enterprise features, accelerating delivery and leveraging backups, debugging, and security. Alternatives lack the scale, support, and features needed for efficient, secure development, leading to slower, riskier processes and a smaller partner ecosystem.
Scale securely
Docker Business offers a powerful container registry, certified secure and trusted content, software supply chain vulnerability analysis, image management, and policy enforcement. Alternatives offer basic security but lack integrated supply chain capabilities, requiring extra tools, services, and engineering.
Enterprise-grade support and training
Docker Business provides enterprise-grade professional support, priority case routing, proactive monitoring, a dedicated customer success manager, and extensive training. Most alternatives lack official SLA-backed support, relying instead on community resources with very limited professional options and training.
Consider the total cost of ownership (TCO)
If you decide to pursue open-source and DIY alternatives, you must ensure doing so is a worthwhile use of your engineering resources due to the amount of resources and budget required to integrate and maintain the alternative solution. Docker Business is an integrated suite of products that work together out of the box with enterprise-grade security and 24-hour SLA commercial support.
Comparison of Docker Business and alternatives
The following compares capabilities of Docker Business and DIY OSS-Based Alternatives
| Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine | Alternatives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docker BusinessIntegrated product suite engineered, maintained, and supported by Docker | DIY w/ Docker EngineDocker containerization technology | AlternativesStand-alone containerization tools | |
| Container build, run, manage (Docker Desktop) | |||
| Container runtime | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine | Alternatives |
| Kubernetes integration | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine | Alternatives |
| OS compatibility (macOS, Linux, Win.) | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine | Alternativeslimited |
| Enhanced enterprise security | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Private extensions & marketplace | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Container management app | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Image registry (Docker Hub) | |||
| Private and public repos | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Native integration with image registry | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Marketplace functionality | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Fully integrated vulnerability analysis | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Secure & trusted content | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Remote build (Docker Build Cloud) | |||
| Cloud-based container build | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Multi-platform support (ARM /AMD) | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| CI tool integration | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Parallel remote builds | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Shared team build cache | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Container vulnerability analysis (Docker Scout) | |||
| Vulnerability analysis and reporting | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| Security SDLC integrations | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited | Alternativeslimited |
| External system integration w/ API | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Policy library and evaluation | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Alerting and notifications | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| CVE suppression and exception | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Container testing (Testcontainers Cloud) | |||
| Inner loop integration testing | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Central test dashboard | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Test infra. provision & cleanup | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Local and cloud testing | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Testing with real dependencies | Docker Business | DIY w/ Docker Engine- | Alternatives- |
| Additional capabilities (Docker Business) | |||
| Integrated solution (Integrated suite of products that enhance productivity, scalability, security) |
Docker Business Engineered & maintained by Docker for devs, teams, orgs, enterprises |
DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited Easy integration with Docker products with manual intervention |
Alternatives- Not an integrated suite of products that work together |
| Enterprise administration (Central mgmt, compliance, RBAC, logs, SSO, SCIM, Auto LCM) |
Docker Business Enterprise-ready for large development teams and organizations |
DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited Limited enterprise admin. Requires manual intervention |
Alternativeslimited Limited or no enterprise admin capabilities |
| Enterprise / commercial support (Enterprise-grade, 24-hour support response for all products) |
Docker Business Proven support processes, strong SLO/A, robust documentation |
DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited Community-based support. Strong docs and knowledge base |
Alternativeslimited Community-based support or limited subscription support |
| Partner and tool ecosystem
(Tech providers, dev toolchains, registries, extensions) |
Docker Business Large and highly useful ecosystem for developers |
DIY w/ Docker Enginelimited Can leverage the Docker ecosystem |
Alternativeslimited Limited, smaller, or no ecosystem |
Docker Business for your team and organization
Alternative approaches require additional products, ongoing engineering, continuous maintenance, and risk mitigation. Docker Business offers a secure enterprise-grade integrated solution and extensive professional support, freeing developers to focus on rapidly shipping high-quality, secure applications.