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Alternatives to Kubectx

Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Rancher, Docker Swarm, and Argo are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Kubectx.
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What is Kubectx and what are its top alternatives?

It is a faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl. It supports Tab completion on bash/zsh/fish shells to help with long context names. You don't have to remember full context names anymore.
Kubectx is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Kubectx is an open source tool with 16.8K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kubectx's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Kubectx

  • Kubernetes
    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. ...

  • Docker Compose
    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. ...

  • Rancher
    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 Swarm
    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. ...

  • Argo
    Argo

    Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes. Argo is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition). ...

  • Portainer
    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. ...

  • Docker Machine
    Docker Machine

    Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them. ...

  • Docker Hub
    Docker Hub

    It is the world's easiest way to create, manage, and deliver your teams' container applications. It is the perfect home for your teams' applications. ...

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Kubernetes

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PROS OF KUBERNETES
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    Leading docker container management solution
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    Simple and powerful
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    Open source
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    Backed by google
  • 58
    The right abstractions
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    Scale services
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    Replication controller
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    Permission managment
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    Supports autoscaling
  • 8
    Cheap
  • 8
    Simple
  • 6
    Self-healing
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    No cloud platform lock-in
  • 5
    Promotes modern/good infrascture practice
  • 5
    Open, powerful, stable
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    Reliable
  • 4
    Scalable
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    Quick cloud setup
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    Cloud Agnostic
  • 3
    Captain of Container Ship
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    A self healing environment with rich metadata
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    Runs on azure
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    Backed by Red Hat
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    Custom and extensibility
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    Sfg
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    Gke
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    Everything of CaaS
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    Golang
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    Easy setup
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    Expandable
CONS OF KUBERNETES
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    Steep learning curve
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    Poor workflow for development
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    Orchestrates only infrastructure
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    High resource requirements for on-prem clusters
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    Too heavy for simple systems
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    Additional vendor lock-in (Docker)
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    More moving parts to secure
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    Additional Technology Overhead

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Conor Myhrvold
Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

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Our first experience with .NET core was when we developed our OSS feature management platform - Tweek (https://github.com/soluto/tweek). We wanted to create a solution that is able to run anywhere (super important for OSS), has excellent performance characteristics and can fit in a multi-container architecture. We decided to implement our rule engine processor in F# , our main service was implemented in C# and other components were built using JavaScript / TypeScript and Go.

Visual Studio Code worked really well for us as well, it worked well with all our polyglot services and the .Net core integration had great cross-platform developer experience (to be fair, F# was a bit trickier) - actually, each of our team members used a different OS (Ubuntu, macos, windows). Our production deployment ran for a time on Docker Swarm until we've decided to adopt Kubernetes with almost seamless migration process.

After our positive experience of running .Net core workloads in containers and developing Tweek's .Net services on non-windows machines, C# had gained back some of its popularity (originally lost to Node.js), and other teams have been using it for developing microservices, k8s sidecars (like https://github.com/Soluto/airbag), cli tools, serverless functions and other projects...

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Docker Compose

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Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
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PROS OF DOCKER COMPOSE
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    Multi-container descriptor
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    Fast development environment setup
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    Easy linking of containers
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    Simple yaml configuration
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    Easy setup
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    Yml or yaml format
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    Use Standard Docker API
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    Open source
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    Go from template to application in minutes
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    Can choose Discovery Backend
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    Scalable
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    Easy configuration
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    Kubernetes integration
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    Quick and easy
CONS OF DOCKER COMPOSE
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    Tied to single machine
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    Still very volatile, changing syntax often

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 8.9M views

Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

  • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
  • Respectively Git as revision control system
  • SourceTree as Git GUI
  • Visual Studio Code as IDE
  • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
  • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
  • SonarQube as quality gate
  • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
  • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
  • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
  • Heroku for deploying in test environments
  • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
  • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
  • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
  • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
  • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

  • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
  • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
  • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
  • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
  • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
  • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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Rancher

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Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
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PROS OF RANCHER
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    Easy to use
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    Open source and totally free
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    Multi-host docker-compose support
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    Load balancing and health check included
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    Simple
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    Rolling upgrades, green/blue upgrades feature
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    Dns and service discovery out-of-the-box
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    Only requires docker
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    Multitenant and permission management
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    Easy to use and feature rich
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    Cross cloud compatible
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    Does everything needed for a docker infrastructure
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    Simple and powerful
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    Next-gen platform
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    Very Docker-friendly
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    Support Kubernetes and Swarm
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    Application catalogs with stack templates (wizards)
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    Supports Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes
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    Rolling and blue/green upgrades deployments
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    High Availability service: keeps your app up 24/7
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    Easy to use service catalog
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    Very intuitive UI
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    IaaS-vendor independent, supports hybrid/multi-cloud
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    Awesome support
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    Scalable
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    Requires less infrastructure requirements
CONS OF RANCHER
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    Hosting Rancher can be complicated

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Docker Swarm

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Native clustering for Docker. Turn a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual host.
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PROS OF DOCKER SWARM
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    Docker friendly
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    Easy to setup
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    Standard Docker API
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    Easy to use
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    Native
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    Free
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    Clustering made easy
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    Simple usage
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    Integral part of docker
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    Cross Platform
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    Labels and annotations
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    Performance
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    Easy Networking
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    Shallow learning curve
CONS OF DOCKER SWARM
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    Low adoption

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Our first experience with .NET core was when we developed our OSS feature management platform - Tweek (https://github.com/soluto/tweek). We wanted to create a solution that is able to run anywhere (super important for OSS), has excellent performance characteristics and can fit in a multi-container architecture. We decided to implement our rule engine processor in F# , our main service was implemented in C# and other components were built using JavaScript / TypeScript and Go.

Visual Studio Code worked really well for us as well, it worked well with all our polyglot services and the .Net core integration had great cross-platform developer experience (to be fair, F# was a bit trickier) - actually, each of our team members used a different OS (Ubuntu, macos, windows). Our production deployment ran for a time on Docker Swarm until we've decided to adopt Kubernetes with almost seamless migration process.

After our positive experience of running .Net core workloads in containers and developing Tweek's .Net services on non-windows machines, C# had gained back some of its popularity (originally lost to Node.js), and other teams have been using it for developing microservices, k8s sidecars (like https://github.com/Soluto/airbag), cli tools, serverless functions and other projects...

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 8.9M views

Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

  • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
  • Respectively Git as revision control system
  • SourceTree as Git GUI
  • Visual Studio Code as IDE
  • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
  • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
  • SonarQube as quality gate
  • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
  • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
  • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
  • Heroku for deploying in test environments
  • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
  • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
  • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
  • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
  • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

  • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
  • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
  • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
  • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
  • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
  • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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Argo

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PROS OF ARGO
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    Open Source
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    Autosinchronize the changes to deploy
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    Online service, no need to install anything
CONS OF ARGO
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    Portainer

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    Open source tool for managing containerized applications
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    PROS OF PORTAINER
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      Simple
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      Great UI
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      Friendly
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      Easy to setup, gives a practical interface for Docker
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      Because it just works, super simple yet powerful
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      Fully featured
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      A must for Docker DevOps
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      Free and opensource
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      It's simple, fast and the support is great
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      API
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      Template Support
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      Docker Machine

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      PROS OF DOCKER MACHINE
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        Easy docker hosts management
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        Docker Hub

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        PROS OF DOCKER HUB
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          Uses a very familiar collaboration model as GitHub, the
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          Provides public and private repositories
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          Quickly creates organizations, add users or create grou
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          Allows users to set permissions to restrict access or s
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          Fairly inexpensive with usage based pricing
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          Security scanning available
        CONS OF DOCKER HUB
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          Lacks fine grain access control
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