What is Habitat?
Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
Habitat is a tool in the Infrastructure Build Tools category of a tech stack.
Habitat is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 317 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Habitat's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Habitat?
Companies
Developers
31 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Habitat.
Habitat Integrations
Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Terraform, and Google Compute Engine are some of the popular tools that integrate with Habitat. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Habitat.
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Habitat Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Habitat?
AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
Pulumi
Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
AWS Cloud Development Kit
It is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert.
Yocto
It is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture. It provides a flexible set of tools and a space where embedded developers worldwide can share technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices that can be used to create tailored Linux images for embedded and IOT devices, or anywhere a customized Linux OS is needed.
