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Apache CloudStack vs Tectonic: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Tectonic? The smartest way to run your container infrastructure. A CoreOS + Kubernetes platform to run Linux containers.
Apache CloudStack and Tectonic are primarily classified as "Open Source Cloud" and "Containers as a Service" 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, Tectonic provides the following key features:
- Deploy code on a container-native stack
- Flexible architectures for each app
- Automatic load balancing for services
Apache CloudStack is an open source tool with 746 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache CloudStack's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Apache CloudStack
- Apache CloudStack works15
- Multi hypervisor13
- Easy setup10
- Real open source software9
- Open architecture9
- Hybrid Cloud integration8
- Community support8
- Secure7
- Simple7
- Scalable5
- Easy to use API2
- Terraform Support1
- Kubernetes Support1