Metamon vs Pulumi: What are the differences?
Metamon: A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps. Metamon is a Vagrantfile combined with a set of Ansible Playbooks which can be used to quickly start a new Django project. Although Metamon is easily extensible by adding new Ansible roles, it is a better fit for people who use Django + Gunicorn + Nginx + PostgreSQL; Pulumi: Open-source cloud development platform. Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
Metamon and Pulumi can be categorized as "Infrastructure Build" tools.
Some of the features offered by Metamon are:
- Create an Ubuntu 14.04 machine.
- Set-up basic Operating system dependencies.
- Set-up a Virtualenv and automatically install dependencies.
On the other hand, Pulumi provides the following key features:
- Containers - Deploy a Docker container to production in 5 minutes using your favorite orchestrator.
- Serverless - Stand up a serverless API or event handler in 5 minutes using a real lambda in code.
- Infrastructure - Manage cloud infrastructure or hosted services using infrastructure as code.
Metamon and Pulumi are both open source tools. Pulumi with 3.02K GitHub stars and 134 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Metamon with 348 GitHub stars and 15 GitHub forks.