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Kiln VS RANCID

Compare Kiln VS RANCID and see what are their differences

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Kiln logo Kiln

Kiln is a complete source control management system based on Git and Mercurial.

RANCID logo RANCID

RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ.
  • Kiln Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-08-04
  • RANCID Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-04-08

Kiln videos

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Buying your first Kiln (used or new)

More videos:

  • Review - Let's talk about KILNS
  • Review - Beginner Kiln Questions

RANCID videos

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Puppet Perspectives - Rancid "Troublemaker" Album Review (feat. Dan)

More videos:

  • Review - Rancid Life Won't Wait Album Review
  • Review - Review: Rancid “Trouble Maker”

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Kiln and RANCID)

Kiln

RANCID

Code Collaboration
100 100%
Code Collaboration
0% 0
Network Automation
0 0%
Network Automation
100% 100
Git
100 100%
Git
0% 0
Configuration Auditing
0 0%
Configuration Auditing
100% 100

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Reviews

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Kiln Reviews

7 Best GitHub Alternatives
Kiln is a paid source code host. You can try Kiln (with all the bells and whistles) free for 30 days. Packages start from $18 a month, billed yearly. Kiln offers Git and Mercurial Version Control. You will need to pay separately for the Code Review Module. Overall, Kiln is more suited for medium to large organizations of 100 -500 people.
Source: beebom.com

RANCID Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, RANCID seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Kiln mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Kiln yet. Tracking of Kiln recommendations started around Mar 2021.

RANCID mentions (9)

  • Cisco switch backup/restore?
    A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Version control for network configs
    Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Management Software for Cisco Devices?
    RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • What all are you doing with Ansible?
    If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Starting with python at 30
    Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Kiln and RANCID, you can also consider the following products

Git - Git is a free and open source version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. It is easy to learn and lightweight with lighting fast performance that outclasses competitors.

Unimus - Unimus is a Network Automation and Configuration management (NCM) solution designed for fast deployment network-wide and ease of use. Unimus does not require learning any abstraction or templating languages, and does not require any coding skills.

Atlassian Bitbucket Server - Atlassian Bitbucket Server is a scalable collaborative Git solution.

Oxidized - configuration backup software (IOS, JunOS) - silly attempt at rancid

Mercurial SCM - Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool.

GenieACS - A fast and lightweight TR-069 Auto Configuration Server (ACS)

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