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Docker

Stacks178.4K

Followers132.6K

+ 1

Votes3.9K

Snap CI

Stacks29

Followers56

+ 1

Votes100

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Docker vs Snap CI: What are the differences?

Docker: Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation. The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere; Snap CI: Build, test, and deploy software faster with Snap's continuous integration and deployment tool. Snap CI is a cloud-based continuous integration & continuous deployment tool with powerful deployment pipelines. Integrates seamlessly with GitHub and provides fast feedback so you can deploy with ease.

Docker can be classified as a tool in the "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers" category, while Snap CI is grouped under "Continuous Integration".

Some of the features offered by Docker are:

Integrated developer tools
open, portable images
shareable, reusable apps

On the other hand, Snap CI provides the following key features:

Deployment Options - Heroku, AWS
System Libraries - Your build runs on a RedHat 6-compatible system with commonly required libraries
Customization Options - In addition to all that we support out of the box, we offer you the chance to customize your build extensively.

"Rapid integration and build up" is the top reason why over 815 developers like Docker, while over 13 developers mention "Github integration" as the leading cause for choosing Snap CI.

Docker is an open source tool with 53.8K GitHub stars and 15.5K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Docker's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Docker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3471 company stacks & 3322 developers stacks; compared to Snap CI, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

Decisions about Docker and Snap CI

Florian Sager

IT DevOp at Agitos GmbH · Oct 22, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 383.1K views

Chose

LXD

over

Docker

lxd/lxc and Docker aren't congruent so this comparison needs a more detailed look; but in short I can say: the lxd-integrated administration of storage including zfs with its snapshot capabilities as well as the system container (multi-process) approach of lxc vs. the limited single-process container approach of Docker is the main reason I chose lxd over Docker.

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Pros of Docker

Pros of Snap CI

823
Rapid integration and build up
691
Isolation
521
Open source
505
Testability and reproducibility
460
Lightweight
218
Standardization
185
Scalable
106
Upgrading / downgrading / application versions
88
Security
85
Private paas environments
34
Portability
26
Limit resource usage
17
Game changer
16
I love the way docker has changed virtualization
14
Fast
12
Concurrency
8
Docker's Compose tools
6
Easy setup
6
Fast and Portable
5
Because its fun
4
Makes shipping to production very simple
3
Highly useful
3
It's dope
2
Very easy to setup integrate and build
2
HIgh Throughput
2
Package the environment with the application
2
Does a nice job hogging memory
2
Open source and highly configurable
2
Simplicity, isolation, resource effective
2
MacOS support FAKE
2
Its cool
2
Docker hub for the FTW
2
Super
0
Asdfd

14
Github integration
13
Easy setup
11
Multi-stage pipelines
10
Continuous deployment
9
Easy ui
9
Great customer support
8
Automatic branch tracking
7
Automated and manual deploys
5
Console debugging
5
Pull request integration
4
Continuous delivery
3
Free for open-source
2
Better PR support

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Cons of Docker

Cons of Snap CI

8
New versions == broken features
6
Unreliable networking
6
Documentation not always in sync
4
Moves quickly
3
Not Secure

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What are some alternatives to Docker and Snap CI?

LXC

LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.

rkt

Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.

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.

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.

Vagrant

Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

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