Azure Resource Manager vs Stacker 1

Azure Resource Manager vs Stacker 1: What are the differences?

Azure Resource Manager: * A management framework that allows administrators to deploy, manage and monitor Azure resources*. It is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure subscription. You use management features, like access control, locks, and tags, to secure and organize your resources after deployment; Stacker 1: An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager. stacker is a tool and library used to create & update multiple CloudFormation stacks. stacker Blueprints are written in troposphere, though the purpose of most templates is to keep them as generic as possible and then use configuration to modify them.

Azure Resource Manager and Stacker 1 can be categorized as "Infrastructure Build" tools.

Some of the features offered by Azure Resource Manager are:

• Deploy app resources
• Organize resources
• Control access to resources

On the other hand, Stacker 1 provides the following key features:

• Easily Create/Update/Destroy many stacks in parallel (though with an understanding of cross-stack dependencies)
• Makes it easy to manage large environments in a single config, while still allowing you to break each part of the environment up into its own completely separate stack.
• Manages dependencies between stacks, only launching one after all the stacks it depends on are finished.