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fabric8 vs Gradle: What are the differences?
fabric8: Open source microservices platform based on Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins. fabric8 makes it easy to create microservices, build, test and deploy them via Continuous Delivery pipelines then run and manage them with Continuous Improvement and ChatOps; Gradle: A powerful build system for the JVM. Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.
fabric8 belongs to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack, while Gradle can be primarily classified under "Java Build Tools".
fabric8 and Gradle are both open source tools. Gradle with 9.23K GitHub stars and 2.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than fabric8 with 1.75K GitHub stars and 532 GitHub forks.
Pros of fabric8
- Easy to build and automate integration testing1
Pros of Gradle
- Flexibility110
- Easy to use51
- Groovy dsl47
- Slow build time22
- Crazy memory leaks10
- Fast incremental builds8
- Kotlin DSL5
- Windows Support1
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Cons of fabric8
Cons of Gradle
- Inactionnable documentation8
- It is just the mess of Ant++6
- Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal4
- Bad Eclipse tooling2
- Dependency on groovy2