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Flockport launches ready to deploy containers of popular web apps
Hi All,
We have been working on this project for months and its principally designed to help end users launch apps in seconds. I hope its going to be helpful to the community at lowendtalk.
Flockport provides ready to deploy containers of popular web apps, based on LXC. And tons of documentation to makes it easier for end users to get started quickly.
We have more than 40 containers of web apps and stacks including Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Prestashop, Moodle, Discourse, Redmine, Nodebb, Gitlab and more.
The advantage of Flockport containers is users don't have to configure and install apps. Just install LXC and you can deploy fully configured Flockport containers in seconds. And it works in cloud KVMs.
Linux containers give users cloud like flexibility of app instances. Just an example for the Lowend talk community prone to trying new providers, with containers you are not wedded to any provider and can easily move apps across Linux systems, and clone, deploy and backup in seconds.
LXC is an open source project supported by Ubuntu. It quite simple to use, however thanks to its longish history (baking since 2009) a lot of information online is often outdated. It works out of the box in Ubuntu where its developed, with documentation and updated LXC packages often lacking in other distros.
We like Debian so we have a repo for Debian wheezy with updated LXC packages that work out of the box.
A little container context. LXC is of course not the only container technology. There is the popular OpenVZ and Linux Vserver but their growth has been impeded by the need of custom kernels. LXC is supported in the vanilla Linux kernel paving the way for widespread adoption.
Docker untill 2 months ago was based on LXC. We have some articles that clarify the differences between LXC and Docker and extra guides on networking which is an area that can trip users. Would absolutely love to hear the feedback of the super active and informed community here!
