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RancherOS vs Lens: What are the differences?
RancherOS: A Lightweight Container Operating System. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers; Lens: Open-source IDE to control your Kubernetes clusters. It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.
RancherOS can be classified as a tool in the "Operating Systems" category, while Lens is grouped under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by RancherOS are:
- Lightweight
- Rancher Integration
- Kuberenetes Integration
On the other hand, Lens provides the following key features:
- Multi Cluster Management
- Multiple Workspaces
- Built-In Prometheus Stats
RancherOS and Lens are both open source tools. RancherOS with 5.82K GitHub stars and 594 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Lens with 3.32K GitHub stars and 139 GitHub forks.
Pros of Lens
- Keep track of cluster changes4
- Easy management of multiple clusters2
- Open Source2
- Local installation, not SaaS1
Pros of RancherOS
- System-docker3
