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Flynn vs Paz: What are the differences?

Flynn: Next generation open source platform as a service. Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds; Paz: A Simple Docker PaaS Written in Node.js. A pluggable in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow, built on Docker, CoreOS, Etcd and Fleet.

Flynn and Paz can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Flynn are:

  • Flynn goes beyond 12 factor apps. Run any Linux process written in any language or framework, even stateful apps on your own servers or any public cloud.
  • Scaling or adding a new cluster is simple: just add more nodes. Everything is containerized, Flynn takes care of distributing work across the cluster.
  • Flynn is 100% free and open source. Flynn works great out of the box, and since Flynn is modular and API-driven it's easy to modify and swap components to suit your needs.

On the other hand, Paz provides the following key features:

  • A web front-end to CoreOS' Fleet with a PaaS-like workflow
  • Like a clustered/multi-host Dokku
  • Beautiful web UI

Flynn and Paz are both open source tools. Flynn with 7.24K GitHub stars and 534 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Paz with 6 GitHub stars and 4 GitHub forks.

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  • 6
    Free
  • 5
    Supports few types of containers:libvirt-lxc, docker
  • 2
    PostgreSQL HA
  • 2
    Easy setup
  • 1
    12-factor methodology
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    What is Flynn?

    Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.

    What is Paz?

    A pluggable in-house service platform with a PaaS-like workflow, built on Docker, CoreOS, Etcd and Fleet.

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      What are some alternatives to Flynn and Paz?
      Deis
      Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.
      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.
      Dokku
      It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.
      Heroku
      Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
      Google App Engine
      Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
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