Ansible vs Joyent Triton: What are the differences?
What is Ansible? Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine. Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
What is Joyent Triton? Transform an entire data center into an easy to manage, elastic Docker host. Simple and proven. Securely deploy and operate containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure, your cloud or ours.
Ansible belongs to "Server Configuration and Automation" category of the tech stack, while Joyent Triton can be primarily classified under "Containers as a Service".
Some of the features offered by Ansible are:
- Ansible's natural automation language allows sysadmins, developers, and IT managers to complete automation projects in hours, not weeks.
- Ansible uses SSH by default instead of requiring agents everywhere. Avoid extra open ports, improve security, eliminate "managing the management", and reclaim CPU cycles.
- Ansible automates app deployment, configuration management, workflow orchestration, and even cloud provisioning all from one system.
On the other hand, Joyent Triton provides the following key features:
- Bare metal performance
- Container-native networking
- Container-native networking
Ansible is an open source tool with 38.2K GitHub stars and 16K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ansible's open source repository on GitHub.
