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Why Docker Business over Alternatives

Docker Business empowers your development team and engineering organization

Alternatives offer only partial solutions
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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.

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.

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.

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 Business

Integrated product suite engineered, maintained, and supported by Docker

 DIY w/ Docker Engine

Docker containerization technology

 Alternatives

Stand-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
 Alternatives

limited

Enhanced enterprise security

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

Private extensions & marketplace

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

Container management app

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

Image registry (Docker Hub)

Private and public repos

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

Native integration with image registry

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

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 Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

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 Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

Security SDLC integrations

 Docker Business
 DIY w/ Docker Engine

limited

 Alternatives

limited

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 Engine

limited
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 Engine

limited
Limited enterprise admin. Requires manual intervention

 Alternatives

limited
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 Engine

limited
Community-based support. Strong docs and knowledge base

 Alternatives

limited
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 Engine

limited
Can leverage the Docker ecosystem

 Alternatives

limited
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.
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