Flocker vs Moby: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Moby? A new upstream project to break up Docker into independent components. Moby is a project which provides a “Lego set” of dozens of components, the framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems, and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas. Docker the product will be assembled from components that are packaged by the Moby project.

Flocker and Moby belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Flocker and Moby are both open source tools. Moby with 54K GitHub stars and 15.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Flocker with 3.19K GitHub stars and 287 GitHub forks.