Fedora vs FreeIPA

Overview

FreeIPA

Stacks41

Followers100

Votes3

GitHub Stars1.1K

Forks359

Fedora

Stacks623

Followers515

Votes97

Fedora vs FreeIPA: What are the differences?

What is Fedora? Operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project. Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.

What is FreeIPA? Manage Linux users and client hosts in your realm from one central location with CLI, Web UI or RPC access. FreeIPA is an integrated Identity and Authentication solution for Linux/UNIX networked environments. A FreeIPA server provides centralized authentication, authorization and account information by storing data about user, groups, hosts and other objects necessary to manage the security aspects of a network of computers.

Fedora and FreeIPA can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.

FreeIPA is an open source tool with 317 GitHub stars and 186 GitHub forks. Here's a link to FreeIPA's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

FreeIPA	Fedora
FreeIPA is an integrated Identity and Authentication solution for Linux/UNIX networked environments. A FreeIPA server provides centralized authentication, authorization and account information by storing data about user, groups, hosts and other objects necessary to manage the security aspects of a network of computers.	Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.
Built on top of well known Open Source components and standard protocols; Strong focus on ease of management and automation of installation and configuration tasks; Full multi master replication for higher redundancy and scalability; Extensible management interfaces (CLI, Web UI, XMLRPC and JSONRPC API) and Python SDK;	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 359	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 41	Stacks 623
Followers 100	Followers 515
Votes 3	Votes 97
Pros & Cons
Pros 2 Manages sudo command groups and sudo commands 1 Manages host and host groups	Pros 23 Great for developers 10 Good release schedule 10 Great integration with system tools 10 Represents the future of rhel/centos 8 Reliable Cons 3 Bugs get fixed slowly from kernel side 2 Boring 2 Systemd 2 Much less support from Wiki 1 Less packages in official repository
Integrations
Python Linux JSON	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to FreeIPA, Fedora?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Auth0

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

Linux Mint

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

Firebase Authentication

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

CentOS

The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.