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Docker Compose vs K9s: What are the differences?
Docker Compose: Define and run multi-container applications with Docker. 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; K9s: 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style. K9s provides a curses based terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your applications in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with observed resources.
Docker Compose and K9s can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Docker Compose and K9s are both open source tools. It seems that Docker Compose with 16.6K GitHub stars and 2.56K forks on GitHub has more adoption than K9s with 2.57K GitHub stars and 131 GitHub forks.
Pros of Docker Compose
- Multi-container descriptor123
- Fast development environment setup110
- Easy linking of containers79
- Simple yaml configuration68
- Easy setup60
- Yml or yaml format16
- Use Standard Docker API12
- Open source8
- Go from template to application in minutes5
- Can choose Discovery Backend5
- Scalable4
- Easy configuration4
- Kubernetes integration4
- Quick and easy3
Pros of K9s
- Nice UI and fast way to manage my kubernetes clusters2
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Cons of Docker Compose
- Tied to single machine9
- Still very volatile, changing syntax often5