Compare Atlantis vs. Kubestack

Atlantis operates as a self-hosted solution, ensuring that your credentials remain within your own infrastructure. It functions as either a Golang binary or a Docker image and is compatible with deployment on various platforms such as VMs, Kubernetes, and Fargate. This tool listens for webhooks from popular version control systems including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. It executes Terraform commands remotely and provides feedback with their outputs. Employed by one of the leading companies globally, it effectively manages over 600 Terraform repositories and supports a team of 300 developers. Having been in production for more than two years, each pull request now features a comprehensive log detailing the infrastructure changes made, the contributors involved, and the approvals granted. Atlantis includes the option to mandate approvals for every production change, facilitating compliance with audits without disrupting your workflows. Developers can initiate Terraform pull requests without needing to expose their credentials, while operators can set requirements for approvals before permitting application changes. This ensures that all alterations are applied prior to merging into the master branch, enhancing both accountability and oversight in the development process. Additionally, the system's detailed change logs promote transparency and traceability, making it an invaluable tool for managing infrastructure as code.

The need to choose between the ease of a graphical user interface and the robustness of infrastructure as code is now a thing of the past. With Kubestack, you can effortlessly create your Kubernetes platform using an intuitive graphical user interface and subsequently export your tailored stack into Terraform code, ensuring dependable provisioning and ongoing operational sustainability. Platforms built with Kubestack Cloud are transitioned into a Terraform root module grounded in the Kubestack framework. All components of this framework are open-source, significantly reducing long-term maintenance burdens while facilitating continuous enhancements. You can implement a proven pull-request and peer-review workflow to streamline change management within your team. By minimizing the amount of custom infrastructure code required, you can effectively lessen the long-term maintenance workload, allowing your team to focus on innovation and growth. This approach ultimately leads to increased efficiency and collaboration among team members, fostering a more productive development environment.