Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Apache CloudStack

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Apache CloudStack

Stacks66

Followers250

Votes95

GitHub Stars2.7K

Forks1.2K

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Stacks14.6K

Followers10.2K

Votes325

Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Apache CloudStack: What are the differences?

Amazon EC2 Container Service: Container management service that supports Docker containers. Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles; Apache CloudStack: Open Source Cloud Computing. Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

Amazon EC2 Container Service can be classified as a tool in the "Containers as a Service" category, while Apache CloudStack is grouped under "Open Source Cloud".

Some of the features offered by Amazon EC2 Container Service are:

Docker Compatibility
Managed Clusters
Programmatic Control

On the other hand, Apache CloudStack provides the following key features:

Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere
Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud
Provides a native API

"Backed by amazon" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon EC2 Container Service over the competitors, whereas "Apache CloudStack works" was stated as the key factor in picking Apache CloudStack.

Apache CloudStack is an open source tool with 754 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache CloudStack's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on Apache CloudStack, Amazon EC2 Container Service

Andres

Lead Senior Software Engineer at InTouch Technology

Jun 3, 2020

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If you want to integrate your cluster and control end to end your pipeline with AWS tools like ECR and Code Pipeline your best option is ECS using a EC2 instance. There are pros and cons but it's easier to integrate using cloud formation templates and visual UI for approvals, etc. ECS is free, you need to pay only for the EC2 instance but unfortunately, it is not standard then you cannot use standard tools to see and manage your Kubernetes.
EKS in the other hand uses standard Kubernates definitions but you need to pay for the service and also for the EC2 instance(s) you have in your cluster.

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Detailed Comparison

Apache CloudStack	Amazon EC2 Container Service
CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.	Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.
Works with hosts running KVM, XenServer/XCP-ng, VMware ESXi with vSphere and HyperV; Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud; Provides a native API; Manages storage for instances running on the hypervisors (primary storage) as well as templates, snapshots, and ISO images (secondary storage); Orchestrates network services from the data link layer (L2) to some application layer (L7) services, such as DHCP, NAT, firewall, VPN, and so on; Accounting of network, compute, and storage resources; Multi-tenancy/account separation; User management; Supports Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible	Docker Compatibility;Managed Clusters;Programmatic Control;Task Definitions;Scheduler;Docker Repository
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 66	Stacks 14.6K
Followers 250	Followers 10.2K
Votes 95	Votes 325
Pros & Cons
Pros 15 Apache CloudStack works 13 Multi hypervisor 10 Easy setup 9 Open architecture 9 Real open source software	Pros 100 Backed by amazon 72 Familiar to ec2 53 Cluster based 42 Simple API 26 Iam roles
Integrations
No integrations available	Docker Amazon EC2

What are some alternatives to Apache CloudStack, Amazon EC2 Container Service?

OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

Azure Container Service

Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.

Docker Cloud

Docker Cloud is the best way to deploy and manage Dockerized applications. Docker Cloud makes it easy for new Docker users to manage and deploy the full spectrum of applications, from single container apps to distributed microservices stacks, to any cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

VirtKick

Software as a service platform for hosting providers.

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.

instainer

InstaDocker is a Docker container hosting service which allows run any Docker container on the cloud instantly.

Docker Datacenter

Docker Datacenter is an integrated solution including open source and commercial software, the integrations between them, full Docker API support, validated configurations and commercial support for your Docker Datacenter environment.

DCHQ

DCHQ delivers enterprise discipline to Linux Containers application lifecycle management. Available in hosted and on-prem versions, DCHQ provides the most advanced application composition framework extending Docker Compose through environment variable bindings across images, BASH script plug-ins that can be invoked at request time and post-provision and support for clustering for high availability across multiple hosts and auto-scaling.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Amazon EC2 Container Service are:

Docker Compatibility
Managed Clusters
Programmatic Control

On the other hand, Apache CloudStack provides the following key features:

Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere
Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud
Provides a native API

Apache CloudStack is an open source tool with 754 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache CloudStack's open source repository on GitHub.

Amazon EC2 Container Service vs Apache CloudStack