fleet VS cluster-api

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

fleet

Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters (by rancher)

cluster-api

Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle (by kubernetes-sigs)
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fleet cluster-api
3 43
1,449 3,354
1.9% 2.8%
9.8 9.9
4 days ago 2 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

rancher - Complete container management platform

argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

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

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

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

argo-rollouts - Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes

terraform-k8s - Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes

sops-secrets-operator - Kubernetes SOPS secrets operator

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

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

eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS