bregman-arie / infraverse

Infrastructure Platforms and Applications Comparison

The most ambitious crossover in history since the MCU. An educational repository regarding the different platforms and projects in the infrastructure world.

Disclaimer: the project in some parts is opininated

• Cloud
  • Services
• CI/CD
  • CI/CD - Platforms
  • CI/CD - Configuration
• Configuration Management
• Dashboards
• Provisioning
• Monitoring
• More Infra related projects
  • Contribute
  • License

Cloud

Services

	AWS	Azure	GCP	OpenStack	Open Source Alternatives or Solutions
Compute	EC2	Virtual Machine	Compute Engine	Nova	oVirt
Network	VPC	Virtual Network	VPC	Neutron
Object Storage	s3	Blob Storage	Cloud Storage	Swift
Block Storage	EBS	Disk Storage	Persistent Disk	Cinder
Image	AMI	Images	Images	Glance
Identity	IAM	Active Directory	Identity	Keystone
Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancing	Load Balancer	Load Balancing	Octavia	Traefik NGINX HAProxy Seesaw
Event/Data Streaming	Kinesis	Stream Analytics	Pub/Sub		Kafka

CI/CD

CI/CD - Platforms

	Jenkins	GitLab CI	CircleCI	Bamboo	OpenShift Pipelines	TeamCity
OPEN SOURCE
Deployment Options	Managed service, On-premise	Hosted, On-premise	Hosted, On-premise	Managed service, On-premise	Depends on how OpenShift was deployed	Managed Service, On-Premise
Plugins	Over thousand plugins				Tekton Hub
Pipeline/Job/Task Format	Groovy, Pipeline DSL	YAML	YAML	Java TaskType Module definition	Kubernetes YAMLs	Kotlin DSL
Best Use Case (imho)	Total Freedom (+ You are not afraid of using Groovy)	When your code is already in Gitlab	When you just want out-of-the-box working CI/CD	No idea	You don't want to maintain a CI/CD server and your CI/CD is mainly containers based	You want versatile CI/CD but don't care about open source

CI/CD - Configuration

	Jenkins	GitLab CI	CircleCI	Bamboo
Set Node/Worker/Runner	Slave	Runner	Runner	Agent

Configuration Management

	Ansible	Puppet	Chef
OPEN SOURCE
Agent vs. Agentless	Agentless	Master-Agent	Master-Agent
Underlying Programming Language	Python	Ruby	Ruby
Push vs. Pull	Both supported. Push is the default	Both supported. Pull is the default	Pull

Dashboards

	Kibana	Grafana	ReportPortal
OPEN SOURCE
Querying	Lucene and KQL	Based on the data source
Supports multiple data sources	Only Elasticsearch
Visualizations	Pie charts, Line charts Data tables, Markdown Geo Maps, Metrics Heat Map	Pie charts, Line charts Data tables, Markdown Geo Maps, Metrics Heat Map	Pie charts, Line charts Data tables
Best suited for	Logs Analysis	Metrics Analysis	Pattern Analysis

Provisioning

Note: Many systems and tools can be used for provisioning (e.g. Ansible). This is focusing on those who were built mainly for this purpose.

	Terraform	Pulumi	CloudFormation
OPEN SOURCE
Language	DSL (HCL)	Python, C#, JavaScript, Go and TypeScript	JSON or YAML
Cloud Agnostic
Written in	Go	Go, Typescript and Python	?
Main Advantage	Large community and many supported providers	Supports multiple languages	AWS services coverage and rolling updates management

Monitoring

	Prometheus	Graphite	Nagios
Main Purpose	Time series DB and monitoring system	Time Series DB and Graph rendering of the data	Monitoring system focused specifically on servers and network
OPEN SOURCE
Written in	Go	Python	C
API	RESTful HTTP and JSON	HTTP API Sockets	RESTful HTTP via Addon installation
Written in	Go	Go, Typescript and Python	?
Data Gathering	Pull (Exporters)	Push	Pull (Agents)
Alerts
Queries
Visualizations	Users mainly use Grafana for dashboards

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