Amazon EC2 Container Service vs ContainerShip: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amazon EC2 Container Service as "Container management service that supports Docker containers". Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles. On the other hand, ContainerShip is detailed as "Multi-Cloud Docker Hosting Made Simple". ContainerShip is an open source hosting platform that makes it simple to build, scale and manage containerized web infrastructure. It supports applications with persistent data needs, has built in disaster recovery, and lets you move between clouds with a click.
Amazon EC2 Container Service and ContainerShip belong to "Containers as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Amazon EC2 Container Service are:
- Docker Compatibility
- Managed Clusters
- Programmatic Control
On the other hand, ContainerShip provides the following key features:
- Orchestration
- Service Discovery
- Internal DNS
ContainerShip is an open source tool with 239 GitHub stars and 29 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ContainerShip's open source repository on GitHub.