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Kitematic vs Lando: What are the differences?

What is Kitematic? The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac. Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X.

What is Lando? *An open source, local development environment and DevOps tool *. It's a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem. Designed to work with most major languages, frameworks and services, it provides an easy way for developers of all skill levels to specify simple or complex requirements for their projects, and then quickly get to work on them.

Kitematic and Lando belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

  • Mac App with GUI for Docker
  • Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
  • Configure environment variables

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

  • Mimicking your production environment locally
  • Integrating with hosting providers like Pantheon
  • Running CI tests locally, running local tests in CI

Kitematic and Lando are both open source tools. It seems that Kitematic with 10.6K GitHub stars and 1.28K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Lando with 1.47K GitHub stars and 291 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Kitematic
Pros of Lando
  • 8
    I like it because it sucks
  • 3
    No command line, Docker in one app, gui, easy to set up
  • 2
    Good for first timer
  • 1
    Easy to get started
  • 2
    Multi containers
  • 2
    Open source

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What is Kitematic?

Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X

What is Lando?

It's a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem. Designed to work with most major languages, frameworks and services, it provides an easy way for developers of all skill levels to specify simple or complex requirements for their projects, and then quickly get to work on them.

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What are some alternatives to Kitematic and Lando?
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.
Portainer
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.
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
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
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.
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