Kitematic vs Katacontainers: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kitematic as "The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac". Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X. On the other hand, Katacontainers is detailed as "Open source project delivering the security of VMs with the speed of containers". It is an open source container runtime, building lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem.

Kitematic and Katacontainers belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

• Mac App with GUI for Docker
• Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
• Configure environment variables

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

• Runs in a dedicated kernel, providing isolation of network, I/O and memory and can utilize hardware-enforced isolation with virtualization VT extensions
• Supports industry standards including OCI container format, Kubernetes CRI interface, as well as legacy virtualization technologies
• Delivers consistent performance as standard Linux containers

Kitematic is an open source tool with 11.8K GitHub stars and 1.43K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kitematic's open source repository on GitHub.