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Gemfury vs Dist: What are the differences?
What is Gemfury? Private ruby gem hosting. Hosted service for your private and custom packages to simplify your deployment story. Once you upload your packages and enable your Gemfury repository, you can securely deploy any package to any host. Your private RubyGems, Python packages, and NPM modules will be safe and within reach on Gemfury. Install them to any machine in minutes without worrying about running and securing your own private repository.
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What is Dist? Reliable, secure, private and fast cloud-based artifact repositories. It offers private Docker Container Registries and Maven Repositories hosted in the cloud Fast, secure, reliable, with quality support. It runs its own purpose built CDN to ensure secure and fast access to your images and artifacts..
Gemfury and Dist can be primarily classified as "Hosted Package Repository" tools.
Some of the features offered by Gemfury are:
- Gemfury works with RubyGems, Python packages, NPM modules, and all compatible frameworks and services.
- Authenticated Repo-URL keeps your private packages safe and secure during deployment. All management and deployment is done over SSL.
- Do everything you need with just a few terminal commands.
On the other hand, Dist provides the following key features:
- Custom CDN
- Use native tools, no need for plugins
- Fast uploads and downloads
Pros of Dist
Pros of Gemfury
- Easy Setup2
- Easy Integration2
- Multiple Repository Types1
- APT repository1