dhall-terraform VS porter

Compare dhall-terraform vs porter and see what are their differences.

dhall-terraform

Generate dhall records from terraform resouces, data_sources & providers (by mujx)

porter

Porter enables you to package your application artifact, client tools, configuration and deployment logic together as an installer that you can distribute, and install with a single command. (by getporter)
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dhall-terraform porter
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53 1,144
- 2.9%
0.0 8.9
almost 4 years ago 4 days ago
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The Unlicense Apache License 2.0
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dhall-terraform

Posts with mentions or reviews of dhall-terraform. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.

porter

Posts with mentions or reviews of porter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
  • Stronger abstraction for deployments
    8 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Oct 2021
    This is just a concept. AFAIK only one implemented this concept is Microsoft's project porter: https://github.com/getporter/porter
  • New automation tool - kuberlogic
    5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Oct 2021
    For porter I am talking about this project https://porter.run/ and NOT this https://porter.sh/
  • Deployment Packaging Solutions
    6 projects | /r/kubernetes | 19 Sep 2021
    Porter
  • kbrew: Install any complex app on Kubernetes with one step - within the context of your environment. Please check out, would love feedback!
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 3 Aug 2021
    As far as I know the tool is used at least in Microsoft. The classic use case is where you want to install an application and also define the infrastructure as well (i.e cluster + db + lb + app). You can see the examples here https://github.com/getporter/porter/tree/main/examples
  • k8s based platform
    7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 2 Aug 2021
    Check https://cnab.io/ and https://porter.sh/
  • Terraform 1.0 Release
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2021
    I'm closely tracking an effort by Microsoft that aims to do a lot of what you're describing since I find myself bridging between these tools and deploying stacks that span tools and roles. [CNAB](https://cnab.io/) and the front-running implementation, [Porter](https://porter.sh/), enable one-step infra deployments, packaged as a single OCI-compatible container, with any number of steps, using the best tools for each of those steps. Think of using aws-cli for some initialization step (create or verify presence of a state bucket), applying some terraform to create infra, and finishing with a helm chart to complete deployment of app components. Each stage in a bundle packages not only the code to run it but also the execution binary of the tool that runs it. The spec and porter are still a moving target but it's a promising space and a nice adjacent evolution of the current state of tooling.
  • Open source Heroku Like Platform on premises
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2021
    Cool, it's great to know that it isn't abandoned.

    I'm not sure why you'd say that their business model was a success. They were bought by Microsoft for Azure. I guess I wonder if a PaaS company can survive without getting the profits off renting the machines to people. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all have PaaS options based around the idea that it comes bundled with the compute, not as a standalone open-source thing for you to use on any platform.

    I guess the question is whether Porter's business plan is "make enough that a company that owns a cloud wants to buy us". Oracle could probably use a nice PaaS platform and team. Maybe DigitalOcean would like to beef up their PaaS offering by acqui-hiring a team with proven knowledge.

    Poking around https://deislabs.io, it's interesting to see that they have a project called "Porter" which seems to be unrelated to the "Porter" being launched here: https://porter.sh. They aren't quite the same, but they both have "easily run your app" goals.

  • Make Kubernetes as easy as Heroku. Open source PaaS to deploy Docker containers on a Kubernetes cluster running in YOUR OWN cloud provider.
    1 project | /r/docker | 11 Jan 2021
    There is already this from Microsoft https://github.com/getporter/porter

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dhall-terraform and porter you can also consider the following projects:

terraform-cdk - Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform

CapRover - Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

helm-charts - Komodor.io public helm charts

governance - Documentation and automation for the Concourse project governance model.

mazzle-starter - infrastructure built using devops-pipeline

porter - Kubernetes powered PaaS that runs in your own cloud.

terraform-provider-spacelift - Terraform provider to interact with Spacelift

kapp-controller - Continuous delivery and package management for Kubernetes.

dhall-kubernetes - Typecheck, template and modularize your Kubernetes definitions with Dhall

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