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Flocker vs K9s: What are the differences?
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; K9s: 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style. K9s provides a curses based terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your applications in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with observed resources.
Flocker and K9s can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Flocker and K9s are both open source tools. It seems that Flocker with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 forks on GitHub has more adoption than K9s with 2.57K GitHub stars and 131 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of K9s
- Nice UI and fast way to manage my kubernetes clusters2
