Use case

A Balena alternative for fleets of 5 to 100 devices

Balena is excellent at scale and it comes with its own OS and a $159 step after ten devices. Simple Docker Ops keeps your Linux and prices the small commercial fleet fairly.

For: Teams that outgrew the free tier but not the ten-device problem.

Add your first device free Supported devices
balena-alternative-01Raspberry Pi 5 · arm64
Healthy
Desired
collector 1.8.4
Actual
collector 1.8.4
Docker
29.0.2
CPU
12%
RAM
43%
Disk
31%
Temp
48 °C
Uptime
38 d
Last deploy
2 d ago
collector1.8.4healthy
mqtt2.0.22healthy
watchdog2.1.0healthy
LogsDiagnosticsRestart appDeployRoll back

The usual pain

  • A proprietary host OS is more than many fleets want to adopt.
  • Pricing that jumps from free to $159 per month at device eleven.

With Simple Docker Ops

  • Keep Debian, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS, or Armbian and your Docker Engine.
  • 25 devices for $10, 100 for $25.
  • Compose stays your deployment format; releases and rollouts are added around it.

Setup

  1. 1Install the agent on an existing device.
  2. 2Import your Compose file as an application.
  3. 3Deploy and compare.

Add your first device free.

Five devices and five gigabytes of registry on the Free plan. No card, no sales call, no Kubernetes.

curl -fsSL https://simpledockerops.com/install | sudo sh
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