Fork vs Portainer

Overview

Fork

Stacks197

Followers258

Votes126

Portainer

Stacks507

Followers842

Votes146

Fork vs Portainer: What are the differences?

Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac. Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly; Portainer: Simple management UI for Docker. Portainer is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments Portainer is available on Windows, Linux and Mac. It has never been so easy to manage Docker !.

Fork can be classified as a tool in the "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" category, while Portainer is grouped under "Container Tools".

"One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs" is the primary reason why developers consider Fork over the competitors, whereas "Simple" was stated as the key factor in picking Portainer.

According to the StackShare community, Portainer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 23 company stacks & 18 developers stacks; compared to Fork, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Advice on Fork, Portainer

Stefan

Jan 19, 2020

Decided

I explored many Git Desktop tools for the Mac and my final decision was to use Fork. What I love about for that it contains three features, I like about a Git Client tool.

It allows

to handle day to day git operations (least important for me as I am cli junkie)
it helps to investigate the history
most important of all, it has a repo manager which many other tools are missing.

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Detailed Comparison

Fork	Portainer
Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.	It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.
-	Docker management; Docker UI; Docker cluster management; Swarm visualizer; Authentication; User Access Control; Docker container management; Docker service management; Docker overview; Docker console; Docker swarm status; Docker image management; Docker network management; Docker dashboard; Remote HTTP API; Automation
Statistics
Stacks 197	Stacks 507
Followers 258	Followers 842
Votes 126	Votes 146
Pros & Cons
Pros 19 One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs 14 Nice UX 13 Does the job way better than others 13 Fast, Great support, Does-it-all, blazing fast 11 Dark theme Cons 2 Poorly written license 1 Merges that require interactive user decision 1 Stability is fragile when looking deeply into history	Pros 36 Simple 27 Great UI 19 Friendly 12 Easy to setup, gives a practical interface for Docker 11 Fully featured
Integrations
Git	Docker Swarm Docker Secrets Auth0 Kubernetes Docker

What are some alternatives to Fork, Portainer?

SourceTree

Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

GitKraken

The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

Tower

Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

Sublime Merge

A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits.

Codefresh

Automate and parallelize testing. Codefresh allows teams to spin up on-demand compositions to run unit and integration tests as part of the continuous integration process. Jenkins integration allows more complex pipelines.

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