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Podman

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containerd

Open container runtime used by cloud-native platforms.

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Wasmer

🚀 Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly

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MicroSandbox

🧱 secure, local and programmable sandboxes for AI agents

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SingularityCE

Open-source container platform for secure scientific and enterprise workloads.

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