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Arcanevszookeeper

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Arcanezookeeper
Score76/10073/100
Rank in category#2 of 44 in Container Management#1 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars8 10212 827
Stars, last 30 days+533+17
Stable releases, 12 months310
Latest releasev2.17.1 · 25 Oct 2026—
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
Main languageGoJava

Which one should you pick?

Arcane scores 76/100 against 73/100 for zookeeper, so it is the safer default.

Arcane ships more often: 31 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for zookeeper.

If you want the quickest setup, Arcane is easier to run; zookeeper needs more configuration.

Arcane is growing faster right now (+533 stars in 30 days).

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