What is Kontena?
Kontena is an open source platform for deploying and running containerized applications. It provides a complete solution for container orchestration and management that works with Docker containers. Some key features of Kontena:
- Simple and intuitive user interface - Makes deploying and managing containers easy through a web-based UI.
- Multi-host container orchestration - Automates container deployment across clusters of Linux hosts.
- VPN-based overlay networking - Securely connect containers across hosts with automatic VPN networking.
- Load balancing and service discovery - Automatically distribute requests across containers and discover container locations.
- Security focused - Implements security best practices for container infrastructure out of the box.
- High availability - Spread container replicas across hosts and provides auto healing of containers.
- Pluggable infrastructure - Works with any Linux hosts such as on-premise hardware, cloud servers, or virtual machines.
- Built-in monitoring tools - Monitor overall cluster health as well as inspect individual containers.
Overall, Kontena streamlines running containerized apps in production by addressing scalability, security, networking and other challenges with containers. It's a good open source alternative to hosted solutions like Docker Enterprise or container services from cloud platforms.