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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.
Pros of Kitematic
- I like it because it sucks8
- No command line, Docker in one app, gui, easy to set up3
- Good for first timer2
- Easy to get started1
Pros of Marathon
- High Availability1
- Powerful UI1
- Service Discovery1
- Load Balancing1
- Health Checks1