Centurion vs containerd: What are the differences?

What is Centurion? A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. A deployment tool for Docker, made by New Relic. Takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings. Supports rolling deployments out of the box, and makes it easy to ship applications to Docker servers. New Relic is using it to run their production infrastructure.

What is containerd? An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity,robustness and portability. An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness, and portability.

Centurion and containerd belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Centurion are:

• Rake application tasks and dependencies
• Talk to a fleet of Docker servers at once
• Does rolling deployment

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

• OCI Image Spec support
• OCI Runtime Spec support (aka runC)
• Image push and pull support

Centurion is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 111 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Centurion's open source repository on GitHub.