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Docker vs Ship

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Overview

Docker
Docker
Stacks194.2K
Followers143.8K
Votes3.9K
Ship
Ship
Stacks8
Followers14
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Docker
Docker
Ship
Ship

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Ship is fast everywhere. Every operation is instantaneous because the Ship app is backed by a continuously updated local cache. File issues in a few keystrokes and find just what you're looking for in a few clicks with no load times in between.

Integrated developer tools; open, portable images; shareable, reusable apps; framework-aware builds; standardized templates; multi-environment support; remote registry management; simple setup for Docker and Kubernetes; certified Kubernetes; application templates; enterprise controls; secure software supply chain; industry-leading container runtime; image scanning; access controls; image signing; caching and mirroring; image lifecycle; policy-based image promotion
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Statistics
Stacks
194.2K
Stacks
8
Followers
143.8K
Followers
14
Votes
3.9K
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 823
    Rapid integration and build up
  • 692
    Isolation
  • 521
    Open source
  • 505
    Testa­bil­i­ty and re­pro­ducibil­i­ty
  • 460
    Lightweight
Cons
  • 8
    New versions == broken features
  • 6
    Documentation not always in sync
  • 6
    Unreliable networking
  • 4
    Moves quickly
  • 3
    Not Secure
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Integrations
Java
Java
Docker Compose
Docker Compose
VirtualBox
VirtualBox
Linux
Linux
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm
boot2docker
boot2docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Docker Machine
Docker Machine
Vagrant
Vagrant
GitHub
GitHub

What are some alternatives to Docker, Ship?

LXD

LXD

LXD isn't a rewrite of LXC, in fact it's building on top of LXC to provide a new, better user experience. Under the hood, LXD uses LXC through liblxc and its Go binding to create and manage the containers. It's basically an alternative to LXC's tools and distribution template system with the added features that come from being controllable over the network.

LXC

LXC

LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers.

rkt

rkt

Rocket is a cli for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.

Remergr.io

Remergr.io

Keep your pull requests automatically up-to-date and resolve your pull requests' conflicts directly from GitHub's UI. Save hundreds of hours you spend resolving conflicts by keeping always your pull requests automatically up-to-date to reduce the chance of conflicts. If conflicts are found, you can straightforwardly resolve them on GitHub's UI with a click of a button.

Astral

Astral

Astral pulls down all of your starred repositories on GitHub and allows you to organize them using one or more tags.

Vagrant Cloud

Vagrant Cloud

Vagrant Cloud pairs with Vagrant to enable access, insight and collaboration across teams, as well as to bring exposure to community contributions and development environments.

TravisBuddy

TravisBuddy

TravisBuddy is a cloud service that creates comments in failed pull requests and tell the author what went wrong and what they can do to fix it.

Insight.io for Github

Insight.io for Github

Improve GitHub code browsing experience by decorating file page with x-ref. Insight.io understands the semantics of a lot of Java, Scala, C++/C, Ruby, Python, PHP repositories at github.

Octokit

Octokit

It is a client library targeting .NET 4.5 and above that provides an easy way to interact with the GitHub API.

Release

Release

When run, this command line interface automatically generates a new GitHub Release and populates it with the changes (commits) made since the last release.

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