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How Kapten compares with the other ways teams take software to production, including when the alternative is the better choice.
Comparisons
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- 01Compare Kapten vs. a traditional PaaS
Kapten vs. a traditional PaaS
Same push-to-deploy simplicity, but the infrastructure lives in your own cloud account.
- 02Compare Kapten vs. DIY Terraform and CI
Kapten vs. DIY Terraform and CI
Build your own platform from infrastructure code and pipelines, or start from one that is already assembled.
- 03Compare Kapten vs. hiring your first SRE
Kapten vs. hiring your first SRE
When a platform can defer the hire, and when you genuinely need a person.
- 04Compare Kapten vs. a coding agent with cloud credentials
Kapten vs. a coding agent with cloud credentials
Why giving your assistant raw cloud keys is not the same as giving it an SRE crew.
Illustrative · bars show Kapten’s qualitative assessment across ownership, setup effort, operational load, control, speed to first deploy and scaling path. These are not measurements.
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