Apache CloudStack vs ngrok: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apache CloudStack as "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. On the other hand, ngrok is detailed as "Securely expose a local web server to the internet and capture all traffic for detailed inspection and replay". ngrok is a reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel between from a public endpoint to a locally running web service. ngrok captures and analyzes all traffic over the tunnel for later inspection and replay.

Apache CloudStack and ngrok are primarily classified as "Open Source Cloud" and "localhost" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Apache CloudStack are:

• 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

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

• Expose any http service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a subdomain of ngrok.com
• Expose any tcp service behind a NAT or firewall to the internet on a random port of ngrok.com
• Inspect all http requests/responses that are transmitted over the tunnel

"Apache CloudStack works" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Apache CloudStack, while over 18 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing ngrok.

Apache CloudStack and ngrok are both open source tools. ngrok with 16.4K GitHub stars and 2.84K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Apache CloudStack with 746 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks.