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."You can use AWS CDK to write code to provision infrastructure."
"The most valuable features of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) are its speed and ease of deployment."
"The setup process is very straightforward."
"AWS CDK has notably streamlined the deployment process compared to other methods, primarily by defining cloud infrastructure as code."
"Feature-wise, Docker is very user-friendly...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"Docker's containerization property is its main selling point."
"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 solution is easy to install."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Docker is its integration with other solutions, such as KVM and AlmaLinux."
"I am impressed with the product's independence. We can also deploy it anywhere."
"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."
"I would like to see a single package image orchestration bundled together."
"Docker could improve by having more advanced features."
"Owing to a few shortcomings in its stability, I would say that its stability can be improved."
"There are elements of stability that are problematic. One of the most recent upgrades created a major incident on our cloud, whereby the containers were not restarting automatically."
"I would like to see better management layers."
"Stability is an area with a shortcoming."
"The command line interface could be more intuitive. I constantly struggle with it."
"The volumes for persistent storage could be more user friendly right out of the box."
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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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