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AutoFac vs Rancher: What are the differences?
What is AutoFac? An Inversion of Control container. It is an addictive Inversion of Control container for .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET 4.5.1+, Universal Windows apps, and more. It provides activation events to let you know when components are being activated or released, allowing for a lot of customization with little code.
What is Rancher? Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service. Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
AutoFac and Rancher can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Rancher is an open source tool with 15.1K GitHub stars and 1.86K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rancher's open source repository on GitHub.
trivago, Alibaba Group, and Oxylabs are some of the popular companies that use Rancher, whereas AutoFac is used by YieldPlanet S.A., Volosoft, and Business Logic. Rancher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 153 company stacks & 528 developers stacks; compared to AutoFac, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of AutoFac
Pros of Rancher
- Easy to use103
- Open source and totally free79
- Multi-host docker-compose support63
- Load balancing and health check included58
- Simple58
- Rolling upgrades, green/blue upgrades feature44
- Dns and service discovery out-of-the-box42
- Only requires docker37
- Multitenant and permission management34
- Easy to use and feature rich29
- Cross cloud compatible11
- Does everything needed for a docker infrastructure11
- Simple and powerful8
- Next-gen platform8
- Very Docker-friendly7
- Support Kubernetes and Swarm6
- Application catalogs with stack templates (wizards)6
- Supports Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes6
- Rolling and blue/green upgrades deployments6
- High Availability service: keeps your app up 24/76
- Easy to use service catalog5
- Very intuitive UI4
- IaaS-vendor independent, supports hybrid/multi-cloud4
- Awesome support4
- Scalable3
- Requires less infrastructure requirements2
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Cons of AutoFac
Cons of Rancher
- Hosting Rancher can be complicated10
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