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GeoEngineer vs Habitat: What are the differences?
GeoEngineer: Ruby DSL and DSL (geo) to codify then plan and execute changes to cloud resources, by Coinbase. GeoEngineer uses Terraform to plan and execute changes, so the DSL to describe resources is similar to Terraform's. GeoEngineer's DSL also provides programming and object oriented features like inheritance, abstraction, branching and looping; Habitat: Application Automation framework by Chef. Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
GeoEngineer and Habitat belong to "Infrastructure Build Tools" category of the tech stack.
GeoEngineer and Habitat are both open source tools. Habitat with 1.97K GitHub stars and 294 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than GeoEngineer with 397 GitHub stars and 49 GitHub forks.
Pros of GeoEngineer
Pros of Habitat
- Easy to use2
- Supervisor is great concept1
- Lightweight1
- Cross platform builds1