We performed a comparison between AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and Docker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The setup process is very straightforward."
"The most valuable features of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) are its speed and ease of deployment."
"You can use AWS CDK to write code to provision infrastructure."
"AWS CDK has notably streamlined the deployment process compared to other methods, primarily by defining cloud infrastructure as code."
"Containerization is the most valuable feature. I can communicate to the Docker containers using other containers."
"There are ways of using Docker where you have absolutely no dependencies on the environment that you work in. This allows us to deploy Docker anywhere anytime and this has been most valuable."
"The current version is quite good with our application."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is the dedicated QA environment for connecting the team members. Additionally, there are many core features available and it is highly secure when we are imaging a client's server."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"We are able to stop our containers or stop the service with a single command."
"When used in conjunction with Kubernetes, it is seamless because it integrates very well."
"The most valuable feature is that it gives you the same environment as on a developer machine as well as a production machine relevant to specifications."
"They could allow combining multiple languages, such as JavaScript and Python for the platform. At present, we can use only one language."
"There are some issues with different plugins."
"The primary issue we've encountered is pricing. Some customers find the pricing to be somewhat high. Additionally, there's a discrepancy between the promised resource utilization and the actual utilization. The resource utilization calculations don't align with the provided guidelines. So, the pricing and resource utilization calculations could be refined."
"Using AWS CDK requires some knowledge of popular programming languages."
"Unfortunately, base images are not currently available."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
"If you install Docker on a host, it creates its own firewalls. It can become an issue. Usually, when you want to install Docker, you need to restart the firewall or restart the active tables on the machine, but this is not the case with Kubernetes. It uses the default set up by the next administrator, but with Docker, you have to restart the firewall and restart Docker before the firewall on the system will be okay. If you do not the rules will not be created."
"Docker could improve by providing the ability to use the GPU for parallel processing. If there was the capability of using the GPU it would improve the machine learning that I want to use."
"We have found that it is not easy to install it into a Windows system."
"There may not be much room for improvement with Docker as it has greatly evolved. However, one area that could be improved upon is the documentation on their website which was once easy to follow but has become quite terrible with numerous versions being released. As an example, the installation process for Docker now requires more than just a one-line command, causing inconvenience. Additionally, based on my experience as a college instructor, teaching students to install Docker was a difficult task due to the lack of straightforward and easy-to-follow documentation. Docker should focus on improving their documentation to make it more user-friendly for all."
"Docker could improve by having more advanced features."
"There is always room for improvement. I often refer to forums such as StackOverflow to learn from other developers' experiences and the challenges they have faced while using Docker."
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is ranked 4th in Development Platforms with 4 reviews while Docker is ranked 2nd in Development Platforms with 40 reviews. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is rated 8.0, while Docker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) writes "Allows us to streamline the deployment process, but the documentation for technical support needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Docker writes "Easy to deploy with an impressive networking feature". AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is most compared with , whereas Docker is most compared with Mirantis Container Runtime, Rancher Labs, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Codespaces. See our AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) vs. Docker report.
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