What is Octant?
A tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes.
Octant is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Octant is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Octant's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Octant?
Companies
Developers
8 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Octant.
Octant Integrations
Kubernetes, Linux, gRPC, Windows, and macOS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Octant. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Octant.
Pros of Octant
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Octant's Features
- Resource Viewer
- Summary View
- Port Forward
- Log Stream
- Label Filter
- Cluster Navigation
- Plugin System
Octant Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Octant?
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.
Lens
It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
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
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.
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.
