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Dokku vs tsuru: What are the differences?
What is Dokku? Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash. Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
What is tsuru? Extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. tsuru is an open source polyglot cloud application platform (PaaS). With tsuru, you don’t need to think about servers at all. You can write apps in the programming language of your choice, back it with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL databases, memcached, redis, and many others. You manage your app using the tsuru command-line tool and you deploy code using the Git revision control system, all running on the tsuru infrastructure.
Dokku and tsuru can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.
"Simple" is the primary reason why developers consider Dokku over the competitors, whereas "Very receptive to contributions" was stated as the key factor in picking tsuru.
Dokku and tsuru are both open source tools. Dokku with 17.7K GitHub stars and 1.44K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than tsuru with 3.14K GitHub stars and 421 GitHub forks.
Pros of Dokku
- Simple23
- Open Source12
- Built on Docker11
- Free11
- Yay, it works like a charm4
- Git deploy4
- HTTP proxy from public hostname to container IP address2
- Zero downtime deploys2
Pros of tsuru
- Very receptive to contributions5
- Ready for production with docker since 20135
- Supports sites with millions of users at globo.com5
- Tsuru improved our time to market and Devs happiness4
- Truly opensource - no comercial version4
- Free3
- Very easy to try - just one command line3
- Multi orchestrator2
- Java platform1
- Easy to use1
