cluster-api VS fleet

Compare cluster-api vs fleet and see what are their differences.

cluster-api

Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle (by kubernetes-sigs)

fleet

Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters (by rancher)
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cluster-api fleet
43 3
3,354 1,449
2.8% 1.9%
9.9 9.8
2 days ago 4 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cluster-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-18.

fleet

Posts with mentions or reviews of fleet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cluster-api and fleet you can also consider the following projects:

rancher - Complete container management platform

argocd-operator - A Kubernetes operator for managing Argo CD clusters.

kops - Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management

argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

karmada - Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

Flux - Successor: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2

terraform-k8s - Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes

argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes

kcp - Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads.

sops-secrets-operator - Kubernetes SOPS secrets operator

eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS

werf - A solution for implementing efficient and consistent software delivery to Kubernetes facilitating best practices.