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Kitematic vs Marathon: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kitematic as "The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac". Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X. On the other hand, Marathon is detailed as "Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale". Marathon is an Apache Mesos framework for container orchestration. Marathon provides a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. Marathon is written in Scala and can run in highly-available mode by running multiple copies. The state of running tasks gets stored in the Mesos state abstraction.

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

Kitematic and Marathon are both open source tools. Kitematic with 10.5K GitHub stars and 1.26K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Marathon with 3.87K GitHub stars and 875 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Kitematic
Pros of Marathon
  • 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
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    Easy to get started
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    High Availability
  • 1
    Powerful UI
  • 1
    Service Discovery
  • 1
    Load Balancing
  • 1
    Health Checks

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What is Kitematic?

Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X

What is Marathon?

Marathon is an Apache Mesos framework for container orchestration. Marathon provides a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. Marathon is written in Scala and can run in highly-available mode by running multiple copies. The state of running tasks gets stored in the Mesos state abstraction.

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What are some alternatives to Kitematic and Marathon?
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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