Looks good - not a knock, but for me I'd like comparisons to see how it does against the existing orchestrators/schedulers. Or at the very least, where it differentiates itself against them. Because choosing a new scheduler over more established ones is quite a risk, imo. I feel you have to sell why we'd take a risk with an unknown <i>(to me)</i> product.<p>Currently I feel like the site does a great job selling that Flockport has a lot of the fundamentals, in an easy to use package. Great. But I still want more info.<p>So in concrete terms as an example, how do you differentiate yourself when compared to Nomad?<p><i>edit: sorry to be typical overly negative HN commentator - I don't mean to be, I'm just seeking information, and feel the site is a bit lacking to describe that. I appreciate your hard work here :)</i><p><i>edit2</i>: Something I love for new software is when they do comparisons, like this: <a href="https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/vs/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/vs/index.html</a>
We are pleased to preview Flockport with the HN community. Flockport is a new container management platform designed to deliver a lot of functionality and ease of use. We designed this to be simple, it was the core driving force and we hope we have succeeded.<p>Flockport lets you quickly provision servers and deploy and manage containers across servers, supports overlay networks, distributed storage, service discovery, load balancers and high availability.<p>Flockport also provides a container build system and an app store. Apps can be deployed cluster wide. We also built in support for rolling out things like databases across clusters. Users can add and remove both database instances and also individual databases cluster wide. There is also similar support for web servers and load balancers builtin.<p>We are eager to have the community give it a go and get their early feedback and support. For those who do not want to install it there are preinstalled VMs on the downloads page and also screencasts on the resources page.