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Kitematic vs Octant: 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, Octant is detailed as "A web-based, highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters". A tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes.
Kitematic and Octant 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, Octant provides the following key features:
- Resource Viewer
- Summary View
- Port Forward
Kitematic and Octant are both open source tools. Kitematic with 10.7K GitHub stars and 1.29K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Octant with 1.67K GitHub stars and 69 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 Octant
- Web-based and on compatible with common OS1
- Open Source1