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Rancher vs XMPP: What are the differences?
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; XMPP: An open XML technology for real-time communication. It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.
Rancher and XMPP can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.
Rancher is an open source tool with 12.2K GitHub stars and 1.38K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rancher's open source repository on GitHub.
Redox Engine, Packet, and VCCloud are some of the popular companies that use Rancher, whereas XMPP is used by Mendix, Vidyo.io, and Relayo. Rancher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 117 company stacks & 328 developers stacks; compared to XMPP, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
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
Pros of XMPP
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Cons of Rancher
- Hosting Rancher can be complicated10