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Flocker vs LinuxKit: 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; LinuxKit: A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers. LinuxKit, a toolkit for building custom minimal, immutable Linux distributions. Designed for building and running clustered applications, including but not limited to container orchestration such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Flocker and LinuxKit belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.
Flocker and LinuxKit are both open source tools. LinuxKit with 5.65K GitHub stars and 685 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flocker with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 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 LinuxKit
- Open Source1