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Read the Docs vs Cloudockit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Read the Docs as "Create, host, and browse documentation". It hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar. On the other hand, Cloudockit is detailed as "Auto-generated architecture diagrams, technical documentation and cloud monitoring". It is the only software to offer cloud architecture diagramming and documentation for companies that operate in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform as well as Hyper-V and VMware. The powerful software is able to generate a complete view of your cloud, on-premise, and hybrid cloud environments It offers its tool as a SaaS, Desktop, and Container (currently in beta) solutions. The software is compatible with Visio, Draw.io, Lucidchart, Word, PDF, Excel, and enables you to extract JSON files.
Cloduockit offers 2D/3D diagrams with multiple views, technical documentation and reports, advanced scheduling options, complete cloud monitoring, and compliance rules..
Read the Docs can be classified as a tool in the "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category, while Cloudockit is grouped under "Architecture Design Tools".
Some of the features offered by Read the Docs are:
- Github and Bitbucket Integration
- Auto-updating
- Internationalization
On the other hand, Cloudockit provides the following key features:
- Auto-generated architecture diagrams
- Auto-generated technical documentation
- scheduling & API
Read the Docs is an open source tool with 5.93K GitHub stars and 3.19K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Read the Docs's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Cloudockit
Pros of Read the Docs
- GitHub integration13
- Free for public repos7
- Automated Builds2