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Centurion vs Octant: 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 Octant? A web-based, highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters. A tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes.
Centurion and Octant can be primarily classified 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, Octant provides the following key features:
- Resource Viewer
- Summary View
- Port Forward
Centurion and Octant are both open source tools. Centurion with 1.72K GitHub stars and 112 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Octant with 1.67K GitHub stars and 69 GitHub forks.
Pros of Centurion
Pros of Octant
- Web-based and on compatible with common OS1
- Open Source1