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Flocker vs Portainer: 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; Portainer: Simple management UI for Docker. Portainer is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker environments Portainer is available on Windows, Linux and Mac. It has never been so easy to manage Docker !.
Flocker and Portainer can be primarily classified as "Container" tools.
"Open-Source" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Flocker, while over 29 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Portainer.
Flocker is an open source tool with 3.18K GitHub stars and 287 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flocker's open source repository on GitHub.
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 Portainer
- Simple35
- Great UI26
- Friendly19
- Easy to setup, gives a practical interface for Docker12
- Because it just works, super simple yet powerful11
- Fully featured11
- A must for Docker DevOps9
- Free and opensource7
- API5
- It's simple, fast and the support is great5
- Template Support4
