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faas-netes vs Flocker: What are the differences?
What is faas-netes? Kubernetes as a back-end for OpenFaaS. This is a plugin to enable Kubernetes as an OpenFaaS backend. The existing CLI and UI are fully compatible. It also opens up the possibility for other plugins to be built for orchestation frameworks such as Nomad, Mesos/Marathon or even a cloud-managed back-end such as Hyper.sh or Azure ACI.
What is Flocker? Run your databases in Docker and make them as portable as the rest of your app. Flocker is a data volume manager and multi-host Docker cluster management tool. With it you can control your data using the same tools you use for your stateless applications. This means that you can run your databases, queues and key-value stores in Docker and move them around as easily as the rest of your app.
faas-netes and Flocker belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.
faas-netes and Flocker are both open source tools. Flocker with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than faas-netes with 1.35K GitHub stars and 228 GitHub forks.
Pros of faas-netes
Pros of Flocker
- Open-Source4
- Easily manage Docker containers with Data3
- Easy setup2
- Great support from their team2
- Multi-host docker-compose support2
- Only requires docker2