Kitematic vs Rancher Fleet: 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 Rancher Fleet? Manage large fleets of Kubernetes clusters. It is a Kubernetes cluster fleet controller specifically designed to address the challenges of running thousands to millions of clusters across the world. While it's designed for massive scale the concepts still apply for even small deployments of less than 10 clusters. It is lightweight enough to run on the smallest of deployments too and even has merit in a single node cluster managing only itself.

Kitematic and Rancher Fleet 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, Rancher Fleet provides the following key features:

• Kubernetes cluster fleet controller
• Designed for massive scale
• Lightweight

Kitematic and Rancher Fleet are both open source tools. Kitematic with 11.5K GitHub stars and 1.4K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Rancher Fleet with 338 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.