Stackato vs tsuru: What are the differences?

What is Stackato? 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.

What is tsuru? Extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. tsuru is an open source polyglot cloud application platform (PaaS). With tsuru, you don’t need to think about servers at all. You can write apps in the programming language of your choice, back it with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL databases, memcached, redis, and many others. You manage your app using the tsuru command-line tool and you deploy code using the Git revision control system, all running on the tsuru infrastructure.

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

Some of the features offered by Stackato are:

• Web console
• Activity timeline
• Multi-tenancy

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

• Fast and secure. The entire process is really simple with no special tools needed, just a simple git push.
• Scaling in Tsuru is completely painless. Just add a unit and Tsuru will take care of everything else.
• Tsuru is built to be extensible. Through services you can provide anything your application needs.

tsuru is an open source tool with 3.14K GitHub stars and 421 GitHub forks. Here's a link to tsuru's open source repository on GitHub.