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Helios vs RancherOS: What are the differences?
Helios: Docker container orchestration platform, by Spotify. Helios is a Docker orchestration platform for deploying and managing containers across an entire fleet of servers. Helios provides a HTTP API as well as a command-line client to interact with servers running your containers; RancherOS: Fast, ultra-lightweight container OS. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.
Helios can be classified as a tool in the "Container Tools" category, while RancherOS is grouped under "Operating Systems".
Some of the features offered by Helios are:
- Helios is pragmatic.
- Helios fits into the way you already do ops.
- Hihgly scalable
On the other hand, RancherOS provides the following key features:
- Lightweight
- Rancher Integration
- Kuberenetes Integration
Helios and RancherOS are both open source tools. It seems that RancherOS with 5.5K GitHub stars and 555 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Helios with 2.01K GitHub stars and 230 GitHub forks.
Pros of Helios
Pros of RancherOS
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