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OpenShift vs Sanic: What are the differences?

What is OpenShift? Red Hat's free Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Perl apps. OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

What is Sanic? Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack. On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.

OpenShift and Sanic are primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" and "Web Servers" tools respectively.

"Good free plan" is the primary reason why developers consider OpenShift over the competitors, whereas "Asyncio" was stated as the key factor in picking Sanic.

OpenShift and Sanic are both open source tools. It seems that Sanic with 12.4K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than OpenShift with 915 GitHub stars and 563 GitHub forks.

Accenture, Vungle, and Hazeorid are some of the popular companies that use OpenShift, whereas Sanic is used by Polyaxon, Oh BiBi, and AdCombo. OpenShift has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 52 developers stacks; compared to Sanic, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
Pros of Sanic
  • 99
    Good free plan
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    Open Source
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    Easy setup
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    Nodejs support
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    Well documented
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    Custom domains
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    Mongodb support
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    Clean and simple architecture
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    PHP support
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    Customizable environments
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    Ability to run CRON jobs
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    Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog
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    Easy deployment
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    PostgreSQL support
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    Autoscaling
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    Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility
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    Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear
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    Shell access to gears
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    Great Support
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    High Security
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    Logging & Metrics
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    Cloud Agnostic
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    Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure
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    No credit card needed
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    Because it is easy to manage
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    Secure
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    Meteor support
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    Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e
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    Golang support
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    Its free and offer custom domain usage
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    Autoscaling at a good price point
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    Easy setup and great customer support
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    MultiCloud
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    Great free plan with excellent support
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    This is the only free one among the three as of today
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    Asyncio
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    Fast
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    Easy to use server
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    Websockets

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Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
Cons of Sanic
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    Decisions are made for you, limiting your options
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    License cost
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    Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams
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    What is Red Hat OpenShift?

    OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

    What is Sanic?

    Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack. On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers.

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