Kitematic vs RancherOS

Overview

Kitematic

Stacks67

Followers116

Votes14

RancherOS

Stacks104

Followers158

Votes3

GitHub Stars6.4K

Forks654

Kitematic vs RancherOS: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kitematic as "The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac". Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X. On the other hand, RancherOS is detailed as "Fast, ultra-lightweight container OS". It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

Kitematic and RancherOS are primarily classified as "Container" and "Operating Systems" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

Mac App with GUI for Docker
Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
Configure environment variables

On the other hand, RancherOS provides the following key features:

Lightweight
Rancher Integration
Kuberenetes Integration

Kitematic and RancherOS are both open source tools. Kitematic with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RancherOS with 5.5K GitHub stars and 555 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Kitematic has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 46 developers stacks; compared to RancherOS, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Kitematic	RancherOS
Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X	It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.
Mac App with GUI for Docker;Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it;Configure environment variables;Check App logs;Easily terminal into apps;Restart apps	Lightweight; Rancher Integration; Kuberenetes Integration;Minimalist OS;Comprehensive System Services;Improved Security
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 6.4K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 654
Stacks 67	Stacks 104
Followers 116	Followers 158
Votes 14	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 8 I like it because it sucks 3 No command line, Docker in one app, gui, easy to set up 2 Good for first timer 1 Easy to get started	Pros 3 System-docker
Integrations
Docker	Linux Docker Rancher Kubernetes

What are some alternatives to Kitematic, RancherOS?

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.