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Azk vs Otto: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azk as "A lightweight open source engine to orchestrate development environments". azk lets developers easily and quickly install and configure development environments on their computers. On the other hand, Otto is detailed as "Development and Deployment Made Easy. The successor to Vagrant". Otto automatically builds development environments without any configuration; it can detect your project type and has built-in knowledge of industry-standard tools to setup a development environment that is ready to go. When you're ready to deploy, otto builds and manages an infrastructure, sets up servers, builds, and deploys the application.

Azk and Otto belong to "Virtual Machine Management" category of the tech stack.

Azk and Otto are both open source tools. It seems that Otto with 4.41K GitHub stars and 252 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Azk with 893 GitHub stars and 61 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Azk
Pros of Otto
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 1
    Preview and use ANY project, hassle-free
  • 11
    Vagrant-like
  • 4
    Written in golang
  • 3
    Hashicorp built

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What is Azk?

azk lets developers easily and quickly install and configure development environments on their computers.

What is Otto?

Otto automatically builds development environments without any configuration; it can detect your project type and has built-in knowledge of industry-standard tools to setup a development environment that is ready to go. When you're ready to deploy, otto builds and manages an infrastructure, sets up servers, builds, and deploys the application.

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What are some alternatives to Azk and Otto?
Vagrant
Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
boot2docker
boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV).
XenServer
It is a leading virtualization management platform optimized for application, desktop and server virtualization infrastructures. It is used in the world's largest clouds and enterprises.
libvirt
It is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization technologies.
VMware ESXi
It is a bare metal hypervisor that installs easily on to your server and partitions it into multiple virtual machines. It effectively partitions hardware to consolidate applications and cut costs.
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