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Engine Yard vs virt-manager

A side-by-side look at Engine Yard and virt-manager. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard

Development

Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.

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virt-manager

virt-manager

Network & Admin

virt-manager is an open-source graphical tool for managing virtual machines using libvirt. It provides a simple way to view, control, and manage guest virtual machines running on the KVM and Xen hypervisors.

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