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Habitat vs Hashicorp Sentinel

Overview

Habitat

Stacks34

Followers60

Votes5

GitHub Stars2.7K

Forks319

Hashicorp Sentinel

Stacks25

Followers28

Votes0

Habitat vs Hashicorp Sentinel: What are the differences?

Habitat: Application Automation framework by Chef. 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; Hashicorp Sentinel: Policy as code framework for HashiCorp Enterprise Products. Sentinel is an embeddable policy as code framework to enable fine-grained, logic-based policy decisions that can be extended to source external information to make decisions.

Habitat and Hashicorp Sentinel belong to "Infrastructure Build Tools" category of the tech stack.

Habitat is an open source tool with 2.19K GitHub stars and 316 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Habitat's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Habitat	Hashicorp Sentinel
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.	Sentinel is an embeddable policy as code framework to enable fine-grained, logic-based policy decisions that can be extended to source external information to make decisions.
-	policy as code;Fine-grained, condition-based policy; Multiple enforcement levels; Multi-cloud compatible
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 319	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 34	Stacks 25
Followers 60	Followers 28
Votes 5	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Easy to use 1 Supervisor is great concept 1 Lightweight 1 Cross platform builds	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Terraform Microsoft Azure Chef rkt Nomad Google App Engine Docker Mesosphere Kubernetes Google Compute Engine	Nomad Vault Terraform Consul

What are some alternatives to Habitat, Hashicorp Sentinel?

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.

Scalr

Scalr is a remote state & operations backend for Terraform with access controls, policy as code, and many quality of life features.

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.

Azure Resource Manager

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.

Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Google Cloud Deployment Manager allows you to specify all the resources needed for your application in a declarative format using yaml.

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.

GeoEngineer

GeoEngineer uses Terraform to plan and execute changes, so the DSL to describe resources is similar to Terraform's. GeoEngineer's DSL also provides programming and object oriented features like inheritance, abstraction, branching and looping.

Atlas

Atlas is one foundation to manage and provide visibility to your servers, containers, VMs, configuration management, service discovery, and additional operations services.