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Centurion vs minikube: What are the differences?
What is Centurion? A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. A deployment tool for Docker, made by New Relic. Takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings. Supports rolling deployments out of the box, and makes it easy to ship applications to Docker servers. New Relic is using it to run their production infrastructure.
What is minikube? Local Kubernetes engine. It implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Its goal is to be the tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit.
Centurion and minikube can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Some of the features offered by Centurion are:
- Rake application tasks and dependencies
- Talk to a fleet of Docker servers at once
- Does rolling deployment
On the other hand, minikube provides the following key features:
- Local Kubernetes
- LoadBalancer
- Multi-cluster
Centurion and minikube are both open source tools. minikube with 15.2K GitHub stars and 2.39K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Centurion with 1.72K GitHub stars and 111 GitHub forks.
Pros of Centurion
Pros of minikube
- Let's me test k8s config locally1
- Can use same yaml config I'll use for prod deployment1
- Easy setup1
