⚡ Containers and Virtualization in the United States

Containerization and virtualization are technologies used to isolate computing environments from one another for more efficient and secure use of physical hardware resources.

The United States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our statistics, containers and virtualization tools are detected on 6.5% of websites from the United States.

Statistics based on 654K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top containers and virtualization tools on websites in the United States in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Kubernetes, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 99.2% share.
It is followed by Docker with 0.9% and Amazon ECS with 0.02%.

Kubernetes 99.2%
Docker 0.9%
Amazon ECS 0.02%
OpenShift 0.02%
LXC 0.02%
VMware 0.002%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in the United States than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. OpenShift ^(-2)
6. VMware ^(-1)

✨ Best Containers and Virtualization Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 6 containers and virtualization tools used on sites from the United States, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Kubernetes San Francisco, California, United States An open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines. FreeOpen source	99.2%
2	Docker San Francisco, California, United States An open-source platform that enables developers to package, distribute, and run applications in lightweight, portable containers that include all required dependencies. Free$11+/user/month	0.9%
⏳	Amazon ECS Seattle, Washington, United States A fully managed container orchestration service that enables users to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS. Free tier$0.03238+/hour	0.02%
4	OpenShift Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A containerization platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. $$$	0.02%
5	LXC Armonk, New York, United States A low-level Linux container runtime that provides operating-system-level virtualization through tools, templates, APIs, and language bindings for creating and managing system containers. FreeOpen source	0.02%
6	VMware Palo Alto, United States An enterprise-grade virtualization and cloud computing platform that separates operating systems and applications from physical hardware to create pools of shared compute, storage, and networking resources. $$$	0.002%

👉 See Also

🌎 Containers and Virtualization in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 654,819 websites from the United States.
We currently track the presence of 7 containers and virtualization tools across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.