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Kitematic vs Tutum: 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, Tutum is detailed as "Build, deploy, monitor, and scale Docker containers". Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.
Kitematic and Tutum 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, Tutum provides the following key features:
- Deploy from Docker Hub
- Free private Docker registry
- CLI Tool
"I like it because it sucks" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Kitematic, while over 34 developers mention "Awesome user interface" as the leading cause for choosing Tutum.
Kitematic is an open source tool with 10.5K GitHub stars and 1.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kitematic's open source repository on GitHub.
Docker, tray.io, and Gazelle are some of the popular companies that use Tutum, whereas Kitematic is used by Docker, Car Throttle, and Athento. Tutum has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Kitematic, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
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 Tutum
- Awesome user interface35
- Free private docker registry28
- Its super easy24
- Docker public index integration24
- Friendly support21
- I could bring my own node20
- Load balancing19
- Easy to use Jumpstart Images14
- High resilience12
- Love the tutum images for php & mysql12
- Makes code delivery super easy5
- Free5
- Cross cloud platform5
- Iteratively and continuous growth3
- Documentation2
- High level and minimalist2
- Tutum Buttons - 1-click deploy1
- On demand environment1
- Closing Down :(1
- Free low TTL (60s) DNS service1