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fabric8 vs Spinnaker: What are the differences?
Developers describe fabric8 as "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. On the other hand, Spinnaker is detailed as "Multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence". Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.
fabric8 belongs to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack, while Spinnaker can be primarily classified under "Continuous Deployment".
fabric8 and Spinnaker are both open source tools. Spinnaker with 6.27K GitHub stars and 902 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 Spinnaker
- Mature14
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Cons of fabric8
Cons of Spinnaker
- No GitOps3
- Configuration time1
- Management overhead1
- Ease of use1