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Weave vs Octant: What are the differences?
What is Weave? Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts. Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere.
What is Octant? 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.
Weave and Octant can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Some of the features offered by Weave are:
- Virtual Ethernet Switch
- Application isolation
- Security
On the other hand, Octant provides the following key features:
- Resource Viewer
- Summary View
- Port Forward
Weave and Octant are both open source tools. It seems that Weave with 5.6K GitHub stars and 527 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Octant with 1.67K GitHub stars and 69 GitHub forks.
Pros of Octant
- Web-based and on compatible with common OS1
- Open Source1
Pros of Weave
- Easy setup3
- Seamlessly with mesos/marathon3
- Seamless integration with application layer1