🆚 Docker vs. Kubernetes

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Kubernetes is much more popular than Docker.
🌎 Kubernetes is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌍 Docker is more popular in American Samoa and Seychelles.

Docker

Kubernetes

Type

Container management tool

About

Docker is a platform that allows users to easily pack, distribute, and manage applications within containers.

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines.

It provides horizontal and vertical autoscaling, automated rollouts and rollbacks of application updates, service discovery and built-in load balancing, storage orchestration with persistent volumes, and self-healing capabilities.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

docker.com #7,881

kubernetes.io #2,285

Pricing

Free version ✔️Personal *

Pro$11/user/month

Team$16/user/month

Business$24/user/month

* Docker Desktop is free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees and less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects.

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Kubernetes container management tool is 44 times more popular than Docker.

Total websites

Market share

Containers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kubernetes is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Docker is more popular in American Samoa and Seychelles.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Australia

Germany

Canada

France

Japan

Italy

Netherlands