Conduit vs faas-netes: What are the differences?

What is Conduit? Open-source service mesh for Kubernetes. Conduit is a lightweight open source service mesh designed for performance, power, and ease of use when running applications on Kubernetes. Conduit is incredibly fast, lightweight, fundamentally secure, and easy to get started with.

What is faas-netes? Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS. This is a plugin to enable Kubernetes as an OpenFaaS backend. The existing CLI and UI are fully compatible. It also opens up the possibility for other plugins to be built for orchestation frameworks such as Nomad, Mesos/Marathon or even a cloud-managed back-end such as Hyper.sh or Azure ACI.

Conduit and faas-netes can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.

Conduit and faas-netes are both open source tools. Conduit with 4.18K GitHub stars and 352 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than faas-netes with 1.35K GitHub stars and 228 GitHub forks.