Flocker vs RancherOS

Overview

Flocker

Stacks12

Followers59

Votes15

GitHub Stars3.4K

Forks288

RancherOS

Stacks104

Followers158

Votes3

GitHub Stars6.4K

Forks654

Flocker vs RancherOS: 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; RancherOS: Fast, ultra-lightweight container OS. It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.

Flocker can be classified as a tool in the "Container Tools" category, while RancherOS is grouped under "Operating Systems".

Flocker and RancherOS are both open source tools. It seems that RancherOS with 5.5K GitHub stars and 555 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flocker with 3.2K GitHub stars and 287 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Flocker	RancherOS
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.	It makes it simple to run containers at scale in development, test and production. By containerizing system services and leveraging Docker for management, the operating system provides a very reliable and easy to manage containers.
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	Lightweight; Rancher Integration; Kuberenetes Integration;Minimalist OS;Comprehensive System Services;Improved Security
Statistics
GitHub Stars 3.4K	GitHub Stars 6.4K
GitHub Forks 288	GitHub Forks 654
Stacks 12	Stacks 104
Followers 59	Followers 158
Votes 15	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Open-Source 3 Easily manage Docker containers with Data 2 Only requires docker 2 Great support from their team 2 Multi-host docker-compose support	Pros 3 System-docker
Integrations
Amazon EC2 Amazon EBS Docker Mesosphere Kubernetes Docker Compose Docker Swarm CoreOS	Linux Docker Rancher Kubernetes

What are some alternatives to Flocker, RancherOS?

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 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

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.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

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 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.

Debian

Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. FreeBSD is an operating system including a kernel and other software.

Portainer

It is a universal container management tool. It works with Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Swarm and Azure ACI. It allows you to manage containers without needing to know platform-specific code.

Arch Linux

A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project. Because of its predominance, the word "Fedora" is often used interchangeably to mean both the Fedora Project and the Fedora operating system.