Centmin Mod vs Rex: What are the differences?

Centmin Mod: A set of open source Linux software. It is a set of open source Linux software which are together form the platform (web stack) where a web site's files (text, CSS files, javascript, web fonts, videos and images) and data can be served to a visitor; Rex: the friendly automation framework. Rex is an automation framework that combines Perl and Secure Shell (SSH) for a portable and highly flexible approach to data center infrastructure management and software deployment.

Centmin Mod and Rex belong to "Server Configuration and Automation" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Centmin Mod are:

• Free SSL certificates via Letsencrypt
• Nginx Brotli Compression
• KernelCare integration

On the other hand, Rex provides the following key features:

• Puts you in charge: Rex acknowledges that there is more than one way to manage it. It trusts you to be in the best position to decide what to automate and how, allowing you to build the automation tool your situation requires.
• Easy to get on board: automate what you are doing today, and add more tomorrow. Rex is instantly usable, making it ideal and friendly for incremental automation.
• It's just Perl: Perl is a battle-tested, mature language. Whenever you reach the limitations of the built-in Rex features, a powerful programming language and module ecosystem is directly available at your fingertips to seamlessly extend it even in other languages. So after all, it's not just Perl.

Centmin Mod and Rex are both open source tools. Rex with 620 GitHub stars and 204 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Centmin Mod with 471 GitHub stars and 133 GitHub forks.