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GeoEngineer vs Azure Resource Manager: What are the differences?

What is GeoEngineer? Ruby DSL and DSL (geo) to codify then plan and execute changes to cloud resources, by Coinbase. GeoEngineer uses Terraform to plan and execute changes, so the DSL to describe resources is similar to Terraform's. GeoEngineer's DSL also provides programming and object oriented features like inheritance, abstraction, branching and looping.

What is Azure Resource Manager? * A management framework that allows administrators to deploy, manage and monitor Azure resources*. It also allows administrators to apply access controls to all services in a resource group with role-based access control (RBAC), which is integrated into ARM.

GeoEngineer and Azure Resource Manager belong to "Infrastructure Build Tools" category of the tech stack.

GeoEngineer and Azure Resource Manager are both open source tools. It seems that GeoEngineer with 406 GitHub stars and 51 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Azure Resource Manager with 63 GitHub stars and 46 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Azure Resource Manager
Pros of GeoEngineer
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    Bicep - Simple Declarative Language
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    RBAC and Policies in templates
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    Deep integration with Azure services like Azure Policy
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    Day 1 resource support
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    Versioned deployment via Blueprints
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    Over 1K samples the QuickStart repo
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    Infrastructure-as-Code
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    What is Azure Resource Manager?

    It is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure subscription. You use management features, like access control, locks, and tags, to secure and organize your resources after deployment.

    What is GeoEngineer?

    GeoEngineer uses Terraform to plan and execute changes, so the DSL to describe resources is similar to Terraform's. GeoEngineer's DSL also provides programming and object oriented features like inheritance, abstraction, branching and looping.

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    What are some alternatives to Azure Resource Manager and GeoEngineer?
    AWS CloudFormation
    You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
    Terraform
    With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
    PowerShell
    A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.
    Chef
    Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.
    Kubernetes
    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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