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dockersh vs Octant: What are the differences?
Developers describe dockersh as "A shell which places users into individual docker containers". dockersh is designed to be used as a login shell on machines with multiple interactive users. When a user invokes dockersh, it will bring up a Docker container (if not already running), and then spawn a new interactive shell in the container's namespace. On the other hand, Octant is detailed as "A web-based, highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters". A tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes.
dockersh and Octant can be categorized as "Container" tools.
dockersh and Octant are both open source tools. Octant with 1.67K GitHub stars and 69 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than dockersh with 1.29K GitHub stars and 78 GitHub forks.
Pros of dockersh
- Multiple users to ssh onto a single box1
- Isolation1
- Privacy1
- Secure1
Pros of Octant
- Web-based and on compatible with common OS1
- Open Source1