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  5. Flocker vs GitHub

Flocker vs GitHub

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Overview

GitHub
GitHub
Stacks296.3K
Followers259.0K
Votes10.4K
Flocker
Flocker
Stacks12
Followers59
Votes15
GitHub Stars3.4K
Forks288

Flocker vs GitHub: What are the differences?

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.

What is GitHub? Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects. GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Flocker can be classified as a tool in the "Container Tools" category, while GitHub is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

"Open-Source" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Flocker, while over 1750 developers mention "Open source friendly" as the leading cause for choosing GitHub.

Flocker is an open source tool with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flocker's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on GitHub, Flocker

Anonymous
Anonymous

May 25, 2020

Decided

Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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Weverton
Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Jul 28, 2020

Review

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton
Weverton

CTO at SourceLevel

Aug 3, 2020

Review

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Detailed Comparison

GitHub
GitHub
Flocker
Flocker

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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.

Command instructions; Source browser; Git powered wikis; Integrated issue tracking; Code reviews with inline comments; Compare view; Newsfeed; Followers; Developer profiles; Autocompletion for @username mentions
Move containers and their data together between hosts Run multiple containers on multiple machines Define your application as a set of connected containers Easily move between dev, staging and production
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
3.4K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
288
Stacks
296.3K
Stacks
12
Followers
259.0K
Followers
59
Votes
10.4K
Votes
15
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1776
    Open source friendly
  • 1464
    Easy source control
  • 1256
    Nice UI
  • 1138
    Great for team collaboration
  • 869
    Easy setup
Cons
  • 59
    Owned by micrcosoft
  • 39
    Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
  • 16
    Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
  • 10
    API scoping could be better
  • 9
    Only 3 collaborators for private repos
Pros
  • 4
    Open-Source
  • 3
    Easily manage Docker containers with Data
  • 2
    Only requires docker
  • 2
    Multi-host docker-compose support
  • 2
    Great support from their team
Integrations
Grove
Grove
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Airbrake
Airbrake
Codeship
Codeship
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
BugHerd
BugHerd
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code
HipChat
HipChat
CopperEgg
CopperEgg
Nitrous.IO
Nitrous.IO
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon EBS
Amazon EBS
Docker
Docker
Mesosphere
Mesosphere
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm
CoreOS
CoreOS

What are some alternatives to GitHub, Flocker?

Bitbucket

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

GitLab

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Rancher

Rancher

Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.

Docker Compose

Docker Compose

With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.

Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm

Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.

Tutum

Tutum

Tutum lets developers easily manage and run lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. AWS-like control, Heroku-like ease. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale in Tutum.

RhodeCode

RhodeCode

RhodeCode provides centralized control over distributed code repositories. Developers get code review tools and custom APIs that work in Mercurial, Git & SVN. Firms get unified security and user control so that their CTOs can sleep at night

AWS CodeCommit

AWS CodeCommit

CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.

Gogs

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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