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Docker Machine vs K9s: 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; 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 Machine and K9s can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Docker Machine and K9s are both open source tools. Docker Machine with 5.4K GitHub stars and 1.56K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than K9s with 2.57K GitHub stars and 131 GitHub forks.
Pros of Docker Machine
- Easy docker hosts management12
Pros of K9s
- Nice UI and fast way to manage my kubernetes clusters2