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Azure Container Service vs Cloud9 IDE: What are the differences?
What is Azure Container Service? Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. 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.
What is Cloud9 IDE? Your development environment, in the cloud. Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.
Azure Container Service and Cloud9 IDE are primarily classified as "Containers as a Service" and "Cloud IDE" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Azure Container Service are:
- Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
- Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm
- Use popular open source, client-side tooling
On the other hand, Cloud9 IDE provides the following key features:
- Real-time collaboration and chat
- Connect via SSH and FTP
- Code Completion (suggestions)
"Easy to setup, very agnostic" is the primary reason why developers consider Azure Container Service over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking Cloud9 IDE.
According to the StackShare community, Cloud9 IDE has a broader approval, being mentioned in 28 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Azure Container Service, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Azure Container Service
- Easy to setup, very agnostic5
- It supports Kubernetes, Mesos DC/OS and Docker Swarm3
- It has a nice command line interface (CLI) tool2
Pros of Cloud9 IDE
- Easy to use108
- Free102
- Nice UI76
- Terminal access to vm instead of simulation65
- New full ubuntu machines58
- Easy dev environment49
- Ssh access to your own machine44
- Real-time with other people43
- Free prototype hosting43
- Collaboration32
- Open Source10
- Great syntax highlighting6
- Works great5
- Nice ide4
- Better IDE than the others4
- Extremely easy setup4
- Great interface, download or upload file is nice.4
- Its easy to share code3
- You can run your project easier3
- Open-source friendly3
- Good documentation2
- Bitbucket integration1
- Versatile and robust1
- Need a credit card to get access1
- Starts a VM1
- Easy to use, seem fast, friendly ui1
- Good0
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Cons of Azure Container Service
Cons of Cloud9 IDE
- Not free4