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Docker on CentOS vs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Docker on CentOS
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm)
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
30th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Operating Systems (OS) for Business category, the mindshare of Docker on CentOS is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) is 1.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Operating Systems (OS) for Business Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Docker on CentOS0.5%
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm)1.2%
Other98.3%
Operating Systems (OS) for Business
 

Featured Reviews

VV
Senior Software Engineeer at Charter Communications
Containerization has streamlined microservices delivery and ensures consistent hybrid deployments
The capabilities of Docker on CentOS that I have found the most valuable include its use for Spring-based applications, which significantly enhance the value I derive from it. Docker on CentOS is particularly effective for building distributed applications and microservices. Deployments are smooth and easy, and the integration with Kubernetes is seamless. I have successfully managed 80-plus pods clusters, scaling from 80 to 85 with 140 TPS without encountering any issues. Docker on CentOS's lightweight nature allows for flawless development across environments such as dev, stage, and prod. From my perspective, the experience with the deployment of Docker on CentOS is quite positive, especially for the CI/CD pipeline. The architecture overview includes the use of a Git repository and GitLab CI, which facilitates the Docker build for our Spring 3.x Java applications.
reviewer2775897 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Runs consistently in production and supports reliable backend infrastructure workflows
Compared to any other offering in the Linux world, to me personally, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) is quite similar and doesn't really matter; it usually just works. The differences are usually in support and the Ubuntu Pro plan, which I do not have, but the same applies with Red Hat—you can run it free of charge, but then you lack the support, which is what I do with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) as well, so it runs the same as any other Linux distro. In terms of stability and reliability, I've had none worth mentioning or caused by something that wasn't in my own hands, so that's been fine so far. In my team, I have about seven people managing about 60 to 70 VMs across four different clusters and about 16 nodes. I spread them out very evenly and very thinly. User-wise, I don't really serve a company internally; I sell my service on the open market. I have no idea on the numbers of how many customers I have, but it's in the several thousands that use the machines or the service I host through my infrastructure.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Docker on CentOS has positively impacted my organization by being much faster than installing and configuring the database directly on the machine."
"Docker on CentOS has positively impacted my organization by making testing easier."
"Docker Compose makes it easy to maintain multiple services together while ensuring a consistent environment across development and production, simplifying deployment, reducing configuration issues, and saving troubleshooting time."
"The consistency Docker on CentOS gave us for deployments has also reduced many environment-related issues."
"Docker on CentOS has positively impacted my organization by making big data easy to configure and deploy, and it provides a more secure and isolated environment."
"Docker on CentOS has positively impacted my organization as it permits us to develop and deploy our applications very easily; that is really useful, and we can use Docker from different CentOS versions."
"It has been serving us in terms of stability and reliability."
"Using Docker on CentOS with my GitLab pipeline helps my team by addressing the challenge of code not working on multiple platforms, and Docker on CentOS has basically helped us to work on multiple platforms with the same code."
"Honestly, if I had to say the best thing about Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm), as opposed to other Linux distributions, is that there is a lot of software that explicitly recommends running it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) rather than other Linux distributions."
"Infrastructure as code, especially with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) or any other Linux distro, is key; if you don't have your IaC, you're going to spend forever maintaining it."
 

Cons

"However, documentation could be improved. Documentation could be made more accessible, more readable, and all those things."
"To improve Docker on CentOS, apart from having CentOS be end of life, which raises a security risk, I do not see anything else that I can point out about Docker."
"I think there are sometimes issues with CentOS systems as such regarding Docker; it misbehaves sometimes."
"My experience with the learning curve for Docker on CentOS was that the setup process was quite quirky."
"I have faced challenges with the end-of-life cycle of CentOS since 2021-2022, security updates, network complexity with multi-node DNS issues, storage persistence pain points with EBS and EFS, and resource management before the Kubernetes abstraction."
"Because of CentOS lifecycle issues and support issues, additional security tuning that is required, and storage and networking complexity, I am providing this feedback."
"Docker on CentOS can be improved by ensuring that we are using the right image available around the world and choosing only the specific needs for applications, the right amount of CPUs and memory, and the isolation of the problems that we can have on production."
"One improvement I would like to see in Docker on CentOS is how sometimes when I try to install the recommend.sh file, it fails with timeout errors on the server side."
"I would like to see repository clearance and clarity in the repository, as if you try to get anything from the canonical repo, there tends to be ambiguity in the descriptions and especially the versioning, which makes very little sense."
"The only thing I would say maybe could see some improvement is that every once in a while it can be a little bit of a hassle keeping the NVIDIA drivers up to date to prevent any kind of crashes or issues with the NVIDIA drivers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
19%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
29%
Comms Service Provider
17%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Docker on CentOS?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Docker on CentOS involved only free versions in a test environment, without any production purchases of Docker or Docker Hub, as we worked ...
What needs improvement with Docker on CentOS?
Docker on CentOS can be improved in terms of networking complexity, particularly for exposing services, where we now rely on Macvlan and other CNI plugins. I noticed container-to-container security...
What is your primary use case for Docker on CentOS?
My main use case for Docker on CentOS is for deployment, specifically for Python applications, where I use a base image, add the instructions, make a container image, and deploy it to an OpenShift ...
What needs improvement with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm)?
Regarding room for improvement, I would like to see repository clearance and clarity in the repository, as if you try to get anything from the canonical repo, there tends to be ambiguity in the des...
What is your primary use case for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm)?
I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm). I've been working with Ubuntu for about seven to eight months now, and before that, I had a mix of Windows and Linux system administration, mainly ...
What advice do you have for others considering Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm)?
My advice or recommendation for organizations considering Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Noble (Arm) is to always automate. There is a reason I always push for Ansible, Packer, and similar tools. Many firms st...
 

Overview

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