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MacOSvszookeeper

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

MacOSzookeeper
Score76/10073/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Virtualization#1 of 8 in Configuration Management
GitHub stars21 68912 827
Stars, last 30 days+115+17
Stable releases, 12 months180
Latest releasev3.12 · 21 Aug 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageShellJava

Which one should you pick?

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

MacOS ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for zookeeper.

MacOS is growing faster right now (+115 stars in 30 days).

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