aptly vs SOW
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| Figure | aptly | SOW |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Artifact repository software | 8.8 (#6) | 6.9 (#60) |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists community tools and examples including Molior, OpenAPT, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SaltStack. | SOW builds repository metadata in-process and documents compatibility with RPM/YUM and DEB/APT clients plus filesystem and R2 publication providers. |
| Package storage | Packages from mirrors and local repositories are stored in a deduplicated package pool that can be searched and cleaned up. | Managed mode stores package payloads once in a shared pool and renders metadata views for distributions and architectures. |
| Purpose | aptly manages Debian repositories by mirroring remote repositories, managing local package repositories, taking snapshots, pulling package versions with dependencies, and publishing repositories. | SOW creates and manages static RPM/YUM and DEB/APT package repositories from local package files. |
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In their own words
aptly
aptly manages Debian package repositories and publishes controlled package sets for systems that use apt. It can mirror remote repositories, maintain local repositories, pull selected package versions with dependencies, and publish repositories. Immutable snapshots can be compared, merged, filtered, searched and used to create repeatable package environments with controlled changes and rollback to earlier versions. Mirroring supports regular and flat repositories over HTTP(S) and FTP, with filters for architectures, components and packages. Packages from mirrors and local repositories are kept in a deduplicated pool that can be searched and cleaned up. Repositories can be published to local storage, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Azure or JFrog Artifactory Storage, and signed with a user-provided GnuPG key. aptly is free and available as a CLI tool and HTTP REST service. Its REST API has no authentication or protection, and the embedded web server is described as unsuitable for production use.