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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.

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.

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.

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.