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Apache Dubbo vs Rancher Fleet: What are the differences?
What is Apache Dubbo? A high performance Java RPC framework. It is a high-performance, light weight, java based RPC framework. Dubbo offers three key functionalities, which include interface based remote call, fault tolerance & load balancing, and automatic service registration & discovery.
What is Rancher Fleet? Manage large fleets of Kubernetes clusters. It is a Kubernetes cluster fleet controller specifically designed to address the challenges of running thousands to millions of clusters across the world. While it's designed for massive scale the concepts still apply for even small deployments of less than 10 clusters. It is lightweight enough to run on the smallest of deployments too and even has merit in a single node cluster managing only itself.
Apache Dubbo belongs to "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" category of the tech stack, while Rancher Fleet can be primarily classified under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by Apache Dubbo are:
- Transparent interface based RPC
- Intelligent load balancing
- Automatic service registration and discovery
On the other hand, Rancher Fleet provides the following key features:
- Kubernetes cluster fleet controller
- Designed for massive scale
- Lightweight
Apache Dubbo and Rancher Fleet are both open source tools. Apache Dubbo with 31.9K GitHub stars and 20.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Rancher Fleet with 338 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
Pros of Apache Dubbo
Pros of Rancher Fleet
- UI Integration2
- Enterprise support1
- Scalability1