Compare Atlantis vs. RackN Digital Rebar

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.

Envision the collaborative development of adaptable, site-specific workflows that bridge operations, security, and development teams seamlessly. This vision can be realized through Digital Rebar, which effectively integrates disparate tools and processes while also leveraging existing DevOps resources like Terraform and Ansible with appropriate contexts. Digital Rebar streamlines the entire lifecycle of systems, starting from initial booting (even on bare metal) to the complexities of cluster formation. With its flexible architecture, Digital Rebar enables the extraction of reusable modules from the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) catalog, allowing for the incorporation of API integrations and user-extendable workflows that facilitate the orchestration of multi-vendor infrastructures, providing a cloud-like adaptability. You can encapsulate infrastructure automation into immutable, versioned modules, thus ensuring consistency and reliability. By merging IaC with declarative REST APIs, you can direct infrastructure pipelines with the same level of assurance as you apply to your CI/CD pipelines for software development, ultimately enhancing operational efficiency and collaboration across teams. This innovative approach not only simplifies management but also empowers teams to innovate more rapidly.