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Helios vs OpenStack: What are the differences?
What is Helios? Docker container orchestration platform, by Spotify. Helios is a Docker orchestration platform for deploying and managing containers across an entire fleet of servers. Helios provides a HTTP API as well as a command-line client to interact with servers running your containers.
What is OpenStack? Open source software for building private and public clouds. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
Helios can be classified as a tool in the "Container Tools" category, while OpenStack is grouped under "Open Source Cloud".
Some of the features offered by Helios are:
- Helios is pragmatic.
- Helios fits into the way you already do ops.
- Hihgly scalable
On the other hand, OpenStack provides the following key features:
- Compute
- Storage
- Networking
Helios is an open source tool with 2.01K GitHub stars and 231 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Helios's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Helios
Pros of OpenStack
- Private cloud56
- Avoid vendor lock-in38
- Flexible in use22
- Industry leader6
- Supported by many companies in top5004
- Robust architecture4