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Add to SafariWhen comparing Rancher vs AZK, the Slant community recommends Rancher for most people. In the question“What are the best Docker orchestration tools?” Rancher is ranked 5th while AZK is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Rancher is:
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
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Pros
Pro Web GUI cluster management
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
Pro Mult-environment cluster system
- Cattle (Rancher default)
- Swarm
- Kubernetes
- Mesos
Pro Service catalog is easy
Rancher provides a catalog of application templates that make it easy to deploy complex stacks.
- Rancher certified catalog
- Community service catalog
Pro Self-service application stack for self-monitoring
Great contributions from the co community who build the service stack catalog.
One of them is the "Prometheus" template which deploys a collection of containers for monitoring a platform. It's capable of querying all aspects of your environment with some nice pre-built dashboards.
Pro Access control polices
Detailed role-based access control policies can be defined independently for each cluster.
Pro Soft learning curve
azk has straight forward documentation and an accessible, active community that are available by Twitter, their Slack chat and more.
Pro Good performance
Pro Reusable environments
Existent configuration files (azkfiles) are very easy to customize, making them (and by extension the environments themselves) very customizable.
Pro Easy to use
The API and CLI is powerful and simple enough for beginners to rapidly get started
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