aptly VS Moby

Compare aptly vs Moby and see what are their differences.

aptly

aptly - Debian repository management tool (by aptly-dev)

Moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems (by moby)
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aptly Moby
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0.5% 0.3%
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aptly

Posts with mentions or reviews of aptly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • What is an appropriate way to install debian packages in a completely air-gapped environment?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 6 Dec 2023
  • About nautilus-typeahead
    3 projects | /r/debian | 2 Jun 2023
    You should ask in the upstream bug tracker (is it this one? https://github.com/lubomir-brindza/nautilus-typeahead). First step is to get it to build for Debian manually/locally - i.e. patch the official nautilus Debian package. Then it's easy to setup a personal APT repository with aptly
  • WSUS Alternative solution for Linux Systems
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 23 Mar 2023
    Exactly what aptly is for. No idea about CentOS side, for that we just had rsync from official repo + some scripts
  • Zabbix in isolated environment
    1 project | /r/zabbix | 12 Jan 2023
    I'm not sure if this is an option, because it might break the isolation model, but you could setup repo mirrors in whatever tool of choice you like, but for Debian/Ubuntu, I think aptly is really featureful.
  • How can I automate .deb GPG signing procedure?
    1 project | /r/devops | 10 Nov 2022
    I know that it is not directly what you asked about, but without knowing how the signed debs are being used, I can say that if you were to use aptly to create an apt repo to house your debs to then be installed on whatever machines offline (assuming network connectivity, which may be an incorrect assumption), it requires you to sign a published repo/mirror, and also requires you to install and trust the key on any systems that you then want to use to install package unless you specifically use [trusted=yes] in the apt repo list file.
  • Are there any extra steps to creating a Debian repository mirror?
    1 project | /r/debian | 17 Sep 2022
    There's also Aptly but I've never used it. Looks neat, though.
  • Archiving Debian ISO
    1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 27 Jun 2022
    I personally just mirror the packages for what ever I'm using with aptly and use the netinstall iso and point it to that local mirror. The netinstall iso will pull any needed updated from the repo.
  • Linux Host Patch Management
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 27 Jun 2022
    Take a look at Aptly.
  • Centralized patching for Ubuntu
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 25 May 2022
    Aptly is a purpose-built DEB content management solution. Never used but I've heard good things.
  • Linux Package repo server
    2 projects | /r/linuxadmin | 6 Sep 2021
    The last time I got involved in repo/package management, we used aptly Later moved to Jfrog artifactory. The latter is very expensive.There is also pulp some said it is good, which I personally never managed in production environment, so I can't recommend for or against.

Moby

Posts with mentions or reviews of Moby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-19.
  • Using cURL Inside a Docker Container
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2025
    If we run the command without -i option (i.e. with only -t option), a pseudo-TTY will be allocated and the shell will start, but no commands can be accepted and we cannot continue the operation because STDIN is disabled. To forcefully exit from a container in this state, we need to send three consecutive SIGINT signals by pressing cmd + . same times. And this exiting does not trigger the automatic container removal provided by --rm option, so we need to trigger it by stopping the container or remove the container directly.
  • A story on home server security
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025
    Docker has a known security issue with port exposure in that it punches holes through the firewall without asking your permission, see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/4737

    I usually expose ports like `127.0.0.1:1234:1234` instead of `1234:1234`. As far as I understand, it still punches holes this way but to access the container, the attacker would need to get a packet routed to the host with a spoofed IP SRC set to `127.0.0.1`. All other solutions that are better seem to be much more involved.

  • Which Docker variant am I using and where is the daemon running?
    1 project | dev.to | 26 Dec 2024
    When using the Docker Engine on Linux directly, based on the Moby project, you can run
  • Day 23: Docker Resources
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2024
    Moby is the open-source foundation of Docker Engine. Diving into this codebase will help you understand:
  • Comparing 3 Docker container runtimes - Runc, gVisor and Kata Containers
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Oct 2024
    Originally Docker created only containers. In fact, it used LXC as an "exec driver" which is basically what we call runtime today or at least the closest thing to it. It was deprecated in Docker 1.8.0.
  • You run containers, not dockers - Discussing Docker variants, components and versioning
    9 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2024
    The first commit of Docker happened on January 19, 2013. You can still find it on GitHub: https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/a27b4b8cb8e838d03a99b6d2b30f76bdaf2f9e5d
  • You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2024
    I think one of the culprits of this bad default is docker containers.

    Since a container runs your code in a network namespace, in that context '127.0.0.1' really means "accessible inside the container, effectively nowhere", and '0.0.0.0' means "accessible only on the local machine" (except that's not actually true, check out this open issue lol https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/22054 )

    I think that's one reason for some software's default of 0.0.0.0 - people are cargo-culting from stuff that runs in docker and/or people want there stuff to run in docker and work by default.

  • The Docker Ecosystem Explained
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2024
    Docker Engine development has migrated to the Moby Project, an open source framework maintained by the Docker team. Before the migration in 2020, Docker Engine was a maintained fork of the Moby Project that featured select components from it.
  • 5 Alternatives to Docker Desktop
    7 projects | dev.to | 24 Jul 2024
    Rancher Desktop allows you to choose between the Moby engine (offered by Continered) and the dockerd engine (offered by Docker) for building, pushing, and running containers. Compared with Docker Desktop, which provides Docker CLI as a CLI tool, Rancher provides both kubectl and nerdctl for managing Kubernetes and containers, respectively.
  • Vendoring, or go mod vendor: What Is It?
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Jul 2024
    Moby: Made by Docker to really push forward software containerization.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aptly and Moby you can also consider the following projects:

apt-mirror - Official apt-mirror source.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

refrapt - Tool to create local Debian mirrors using Python

containerd - An open and reliable container runtime

bosun - Time Series Alerting Framework

Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

s5cmd - Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool.

docker-openwrt - OpenWrt running in Docker

Go Metrics - Go port of Coda Hale's Metrics library

runc - CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

awsenv - AWS environment config loader

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

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