What is Armada?
Armada is an orchestration platform for running bots and scrapers at scale on Kubernetes. You write a Python script (Playwright, Selenium, or nodriver), add a JSON config, and Armada handles the rest : distributing jobs across as many pods as you need, rotating proxies, managing browser fingerprints, and monitoring everything in real time through a dashboard. Going from 1 worker to 100+ requires zero code changes. No SaaS, no credits, fully self-hosted.
Armada is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Task Distribution, Proxy Manager, Anti-Detection, Unlimited Scaling, Centralized Monitoring
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Armada Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Armada?
PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.
jsdom
It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
Sidekiq
Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails 3/4 to make background processing dead simple.
