Gogs vs rkt

Gogs vs rkt: What are the differences?

What is Gogs? A self-hosted Git service written in Go. The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

What is rkt? App Container runtime. Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.

Gogs belongs to "Code Collaboration & Version Control" category of the tech stack, while rkt can be primarily classified under "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers".

Some of the features offered by Gogs are:

• Activity timeline
• SSH/HTTP(S) protocol support
• SMTP/LDAP/reverse proxy authentication support

On the other hand, rkt provides the following key features:

• Composable. All tools for downloading, installing, and running containers should be well integrated, but independent and composable.
• Security. Isolation should be pluggable, and the crypto primitives for strong trust, image auditing and application identity should exist from day one.
• Image distribution. Discovery of container images should be simple and facilitate a federated namespace, and distributed retrieval. This opens the possibility of alternative protocols, such as BitTorrent, and deployments to private environments without the requirement of a registry.

"Self-hosted github like service" is the top reason why over 32 developers like Gogs, while over 3 developers mention "Security" as the leading cause for choosing rkt.

Gogs and rkt are both open source tools. It seems that Gogs with 30.8K GitHub stars and 3.56K forks on GitHub has more adoption than rkt with 8.71K GitHub stars and 832 GitHub forks.