octohost vs Stackato: What are the differences?

Developers describe octohost as "Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server". octohost helps you host any web site by adding a Dockerfile to your app's source repository. On the other hand, Stackato is detailed as "Enterprise ready private PaaS based on the Cloud Foundry open-source project and Docker". Stackato runs on top of your cloud infrastructure, and is the middleware from which your applications are launched. Developers simply upload their application source files to Stackato via IDE or command-line. Stackato automatically configures the required language runtimes, web frameworks, and data and messaging services.

octohost and Stackato can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by octohost are:

• Uses Dockerfiles rather than Procfiles
• More than 10 languages supported already, and many frameworks
• Support for Amazon, Digital Ocean, Rackspace

On the other hand, Stackato provides the following key features:

• Web console
• Activity timeline
• Multi-tenancy

octohost is an open source tool with 444 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to octohost's open source repository on GitHub.