Docker Machine vs Helm

Overview

Docker Machine

Stacks430

Followers518

Votes12

Helm

Stacks1.4K

Followers911

Votes18

Docker Machine vs Helm: What are the differences?

Docker Machine: Machine management for a container-centric world. Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them; Helm: The Kubernetes Package Manager. Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.

Docker Machine and Helm can be categorized as "Container" tools.

Docker Machine and Helm are both open source tools. It seems that Helm with 12.6K GitHub stars and 4.06K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Docker Machine with 5.39K GitHub stars and 1.56K GitHub forks.

CircleCI, Docplanner, and Auto Trader are some of the popular companies that use Helm, whereas Docker Machine is used by Docker, DNT, and whichledlight.com. Helm has a broader approval, being mentioned in 85 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Docker Machine, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 47 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Docker Machine	Helm
Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them.	Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes.
Statistics
Stacks 430	Stacks 1.4K
Followers 518	Followers 911
Votes 12	Votes 18
Pros & Cons
Pros 12 Easy docker hosts management	Pros 8 Infrastructure as code 6 Open source 2 Easy setup 1 Testability and reproducibility 1 Support
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Docker	Docker Kubernetes

What are some alternatives to Docker Machine, Helm?

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 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

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

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 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.

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.

Codefresh

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.

CAST.AI

It is an AI-driven cloud optimization platform for Kubernetes. Instantly cut your cloud bill, prevent downtime, and 10X the power of DevOps.

k3s

Certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Supports something as small as a Raspberry Pi or as large as an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server.

Flocker

Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool. With it you can control your data using the same tools you use for your stateless applications. This means that you can run your databases, queues and key-value stores in Docker and move them around as easily as the rest of your app.