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Flocker vs Octant: 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; Octant: A web-based, highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters. A tool for developers to understand how applications run on a Kubernetes cluster. It aims to be part of the developer's toolkit for gaining insight and approaching complexity found in Kubernetes.
Flocker and Octant can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.
Flocker and Octant are both open source tools. Flocker with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Octant with 1.67K GitHub stars and 69 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 Octant
- Web-based and on compatible with common OS1
- Open Source1