Azure Container Service vs Eureka: What are the differences?

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; Eureka: AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover. Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.

Azure Container Service and Eureka are primarily classified as "Containers as a Service" and "Open Source Service Discovery" tools respectively.

"Easy to setup, very agnostic" is the primary reason why developers consider Azure Container Service over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud " was stated as the key factor in picking Eureka.

Eureka is an open source tool with 7.98K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Eureka's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Eureka has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Azure Container Service, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.