microshift VS crc

Compare microshift vs crc and see what are their differences.

microshift

A small form factor OpenShift/Kubernetes optimized for edge computing (by openshift)

crc

CRC is a tool to help you run containers. It manages a local OpenShift 4.x cluster, Microshift or a Podman VM optimized for testing and development purposes (by crc-org)
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microshift crc
9 14
630 1,207
2.5% 1.8%
9.9 9.6
6 days ago 3 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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microshift

Posts with mentions or reviews of microshift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

crc

Posts with mentions or reviews of crc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microshift and crc you can also consider the following projects:

Openshift Origin - Conformance test suite for OpenShift

snc - Single Node Cluster creation scripts for OpenShift 4.x as used by CodeReady Containers

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

okd - The self-managing, auto-upgrading, Kubernetes distribution for everyone

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge. [Moved to: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s]

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

kubeedge - Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Framework (project under CNCF)

kube-bench - Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark

runtime - Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers).

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances