Clutch vs Stacker 1: What are the differences?

What is Clutch? The Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling (by Lyft). It provides everything you need to improve your developers' experience and operational capabilities. It comes with several out-of-the-box features for managing cloud-native infrastructure, but is easily configured or extended to interact with whatever you run, wherever you run it.

What is Stacker 1? An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager. stacker is a tool and library used to create & update multiple CloudFormation stacks. stacker Blueprints are written in troposphere, though the purpose of most templates is to keep them as generic as possible and then use configuration to modify them.

Clutch and Stacker 1 belong to "Infrastructure Build Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Clutch are:

• First-class support for role based access control down to the individual resource level
• Highly configurable. No forks. Private extensions
• One Entrypoint

On the other hand, Stacker 1 provides the following key features:

• Easily Create/Update/Destroy many stacks in parallel (though with an understanding of cross-stack dependencies)
• Makes it easy to manage large environments in a single config, while still allowing you to break each part of the environment up into its own completely separate stack.
• Manages dependencies between stacks, only launching one after all the stacks it depends on are finished.

Stacker 1 is an open source tool with 625 GitHub stars and 153 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Stacker 1's open source repository on GitHub.