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Coder vs Kubernetes

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Overview

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Stacks61.2K
Followers52.8K
Votes685
Coder
Coder
Stacks23
Followers33
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Coder
Coder

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.

Coder moves developer workspaces to your cloud and centralizes their creation and management. With Coder, developers can get up and running on new projects right away and stay in flow using their preferred IDE and tools.

Lightweight, simple and accessible;Built for a multi-cloud world, public, private or hybrid;Highly modular, designed so that all of its components are easily swappable
Consistent workspaces; Manage configuration drift; Keep source code in the cloud; Self-hosted on Kubernetes; Can be installed in air-gapped networks; Secure remote access, native app feel; Enterprise features including metrics, audit log, support for OIDC; API; browser-based IDE for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs; local IDE integrations over SSH or 2-way sync; Share work in-development through DevURLs; Installation support; VM-like containers; Support for developing microservices applications
Statistics
Stacks
61.2K
Stacks
23
Followers
52.8K
Followers
33
Votes
685
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 166
    Leading docker container management solution
  • 130
    Simple and powerful
  • 108
    Open source
  • 76
    Backed by google
  • 58
    The right abstractions
Cons
  • 16
    Steep learning curve
  • 15
    Poor workflow for development
  • 8
    Orchestrates only infrastructure
  • 4
    High resource requirements for on-prem clusters
  • 2
    Too heavy for simple systems
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Integrations
Vagrant
Vagrant
Docker
Docker
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine
Ansible
Ansible
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
GitHub
GitHub
WebStorm
WebStorm
RubyMine
RubyMine
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
GitLab
GitLab
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA

What are some alternatives to Kubernetes, Coder?

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.

AWS Cloud9

AWS Cloud9

Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.

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.

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.

Koding

Koding

Koding is a feature rich cloud-based development environment complete with free VMs, an attractive IDE & sudo level terminal access!

Nitrous.IO

Nitrous.IO

Get setup lightning fast in the cloud & code from anywhere, on any machine.

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.

Codeanywhere

Codeanywhere

A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device.

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