configure8 vs Gantry

Configure8 is a developer portal for cataloging engineering systems and enabling standards-based self-service. Its catalog organizes applications, services, data pipelines, ML jobs, environments and cloud resources with related information. Engineers can use a no-code interface to run provisioning, maintenance and other day-two actions through existing automations and guardrails. Scorecards assess reliability, security, architecture, development maturity, DORA metrics and other standards using built-in or custom checks.

Listed integrations include GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS Security Hub, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. An API can ingest and organize data from other tools. Configure8 states that it holds SOC 2 certification and encrypts cloud customer data in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256. The free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited catalog users and integrations, subject to data and feature limits. Paid plans start at $19 per user per month billed annually. Enterprise is listed at $22.89 a month, while the plan details also state $22.89 per month per user.

Gantry is an open-source internal developer platform for teams that need a service catalog and self-service workflows without dedicated platform engineering staff. Its catalog brings together services, APIs, teams, infrastructure components, and environments, including ownership and dependency relationships. Teams can create executable runbooks and workflows with schema-driven forms for tasks such as deployments and environment provisioning. Catalog entities can be written in YAML and applied with `gantry apply`, supporting version control, review, diffs, and rollback. Search uses SQLite FTS5, so Elasticsearch is not required. Official integrations include Kubernetes, GitHub, and ArgoCD; PagerDuty, Datadog, Grafana, and Flux are planned. Gantry ships as a Go binary with embedded SQLite and no external runtime dependencies. It can be installed from a binary, run through Docker or Docker Compose, or built from source. The documentation describes JWT authentication and requires installers to set an admin password. Gantry is self-hosted, licensed under Apache 2.0, and free. Its documentation says it is in active development and that APIs and schemas may change before its first stable release.