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DC/OS vs Rancher: What are the differences?
DC/OS: The Datacenter Operating System. The easiest way to run microservices, big data, and containers in production. Unlike traditional operating systems, DC/OS spans multiple machines within a network, aggregating their resources to maximize utilization by distributed applications; Rancher: Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service. Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
DC/OS belongs to "Cluster Management" category of the tech stack, while Rancher can be primarily classified under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by DC/OS are:
- High Resource Utilization
- Mixed Workload Colocation
- Container Orchestration
On the other hand, Rancher provides the following key features:
- Manage Hosts, Deploy Containers, Monitor Resources
- User Management & Collaboration
- Native Docker APIs & Tools
"Easy to setup a HA cluster" is the top reason why over 4 developers like DC/OS, while over 89 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing Rancher.
DC/OS and Rancher are both open source tools. Rancher with 11.8K GitHub stars and 1.31K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than DC/OS with 2.16K GitHub stars and 451 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Rancher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 88 company stacks & 35 developers stacks; compared to DC/OS, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Pros of DC/OS
- Easy to setup a HA cluster5
- Open source3
- Has templates to install via AWS and Azure2
- Easy Setup1
- Easy to get services running and operate them1
Pros of Rancher
- Easy to use103
- Open source and totally free79
- Multi-host docker-compose support63
- Load balancing and health check included58
- Simple58
- Rolling upgrades, green/blue upgrades feature44
- Dns and service discovery out-of-the-box42
- Only requires docker37
- Multitenant and permission management34
- Easy to use and feature rich29
- Cross cloud compatible11
- Does everything needed for a docker infrastructure11
- Simple and powerful8
- Next-gen platform8
- Very Docker-friendly7
- Support Kubernetes and Swarm6
- Application catalogs with stack templates (wizards)6
- Supports Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes6
- Rolling and blue/green upgrades deployments6
- High Availability service: keeps your app up 24/76
- Easy to use service catalog5
- Very intuitive UI4
- IaaS-vendor independent, supports hybrid/multi-cloud4
- Awesome support4
- Scalable3
- Requires less infrastructure requirements2
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Cons of DC/OS
Cons of Rancher
- Hosting Rancher can be complicated10
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