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  5. Codefresh vs RancherOS

Codefresh vs RancherOS

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Overview

RancherOS
RancherOS
Stacks104
Followers158
Votes3
GitHub Stars6.4K
Forks654
Codefresh
Codefresh
Stacks64
Followers111
Votes47

Codefresh vs RancherOS: What are the differences?

Codefresh: CI/CD Tailor-Made For Docker. Automate and parallelize testing. Codefresh allows teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. Jenkins integration allows more complex pipelines; RancherOS: Fast, ultra-lightweight container OS. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

Codefresh can be classified as a tool in the "Container Tools" category, while RancherOS is grouped under "Operating Systems".

Some of the features offered by Codefresh are:

  • Instant Dev, test and feature preview environments: Enables all team members to run any image as a standalone or composition for feature preview, manual testing, bug reproduction and more. Collaborate on features before pushing them into staging and production.
  • Testing with every step: Configure your pipeline to run integration and unit tests with every step
  • Instantly test all code changes in the Codefresh build system before pushing to staging & production. Run integration, unit tests in parallel.

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

  • Lightweight
  • Rancher Integration
  • Kuberenetes Integration

RancherOS is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 555 GitHub forks. Here's a link to RancherOS's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Codefresh has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to RancherOS, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

RancherOS
RancherOS
Codefresh
Codefresh

It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

Automate and parallelize testing. Codefresh allows teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. Jenkins integration allows more complex pipelines.

Lightweight; Rancher Integration; Kuberenetes Integration;Minimalist OS;Comprehensive System Services;Improved Security
Instant Dev, test and feature preview environments: Enables all team members to run any image as a standalone or composition for feature preview, manual testing, bug reproduction and more. Collaborate on features before pushing them into staging and production.; Testing with every step: Configure your pipeline to run integration and unit tests with every step; Instantly test all code changes in the Codefresh build system before pushing to staging & production. Run integration, unit tests in parallel.; 360° view of Docker images: View commit info, test results and build logs for all images; Manage Docker image labels and status, comment and see new feature branches; search and filter based on any attribute.; Out-of-the-box Docker buildpack for all technologies: Seamlessly package your code in a Docker image. Quickly associate a Dockerfile with your repo by selecting the repository technology stack (Java, Node, PHP, etc.). Codefresh then adds a template for Dockerizing apps.; View and Access Running Container Logs: Access each container log directly from within the Codefresh platform. This lets you easily perform root-cause analysis on failed services and allows you to see logs in high debug model level.; Support for Docker Compose 1 & 2: Manage your Docker Compose file natively in one place, with support for both Docker Compose versions 1 and 2. Use a built-in wizard to write Docker Compose files quickly.; YAML file support: Customize and easily define your pipeline steps using a codefresh.yml file.
Statistics
GitHub Stars
6.4K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
654
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
104
Stacks
64
Followers
158
Followers
111
Votes
3
Votes
47
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 3
    System-docker
Pros
  • 11
    Fastest and easiest way to work with Docker
  • 7
    Great support/fast builds/awesome ui
  • 6
    Great onboarding
  • 5
    Freestyle build steps to support custom CI/CD scripting
  • 4
    Easy setup
Cons
  • 1
    Questionable product quality and stability
  • 1
    Expensive compared to alternatives
Integrations
Linux
Linux
Docker
Docker
Rancher
Rancher
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Quay.io
Quay.io
Docker Compose
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm
BinTray
BinTray
Docker Cloud
Docker Cloud
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
GitHub
GitHub
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
HipChat
HipChat
BlazeMeter
BlazeMeter

What are some alternatives to RancherOS, Codefresh?

Kubernetes

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.

Rancher

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Debian

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Portainer

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

Arch Linux

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

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