What is Acorn.io?
It is an application packaging and deployment framework that simplifies running apps on Kubernetes. It is able to package up all of an applications Docker images, configuration, and deployment specifications into a single Acorn image artifact. This artifact is publishable to any OCI container registry allowing it to be deployed on any dev, test, or production Kubernetes.
Acorn.io is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
One artifact across dev, test, and production
Simple CLI and powerful API
Secure by design
Open source
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Acorn.io Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Acorn.io?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
