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Docker Machine vs Rancher Fleet: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Rancher Fleet? Manage large fleets of Kubernetes clusters. It is a Kubernetes cluster fleet controller specifically designed to address the challenges of running thousands to millions of clusters across the world. While it's designed for massive scale the concepts still apply for even small deployments of less than 10 clusters. It is lightweight enough to run on the smallest of deployments too and even has merit in a single node cluster managing only itself.
Docker Machine and Rancher Fleet belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.
Docker Machine and Rancher Fleet are both open source tools. It seems that Docker Machine with 5.84K GitHub stars and 1.7K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rancher Fleet with 338 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
Pros of Docker Machine
- Easy docker hosts management12
Pros of Rancher Fleet
- UI Integration2
- Enterprise support1
- Scalability1