Mumbai, India based startup Flockport launched a first of its kind Linux container (LXC) sharing website for users, administrators and developers providing popular web applications in portable containers that can be deployed in seconds.

Flockport is based on LXC. LXC containers are like virtual machines, only lightweight and faster with near bare metal performance. The containers are lightweight and efficient, and easy to clone, backup, snapshot and deploy in seconds.

The company’s containers allow users and developers to deliver cloud-like performance and flexibility with application instances that can be freely moved as operations needs change. Users and developers can make their own cloud without the overhead of full virtualization.

“We are extremely excited about the launch of Flockport.com. Linux containers are a flexible and highly efficient platform for distributing and deploying web applications,” said Flockport founder Indrajit Banerjee on the launch of the sharing website. “Flockport wants to make containers accessible to a much wider audience and articulate and provide a broader use of containers as lightweight, portable and extremely fast alternative to virtualization.”

Flockport will also deliver a Flockport Utility that will set up Flockport containers directly to systems. Developers can also view, share and download the containers. In addition, users have the ability to clone, deploy, launch, and deploy applications.

The company’s website says all Flockport containers are powered by highly scalable high performance Nginx web server and come with over 40 preconfigured containers including WordPress, Drupal Commerce, MySQL, Showcase, Joomla and others.

Widespread adoption

Supported by the Linux kernel, Linux containers have been building adoption for some time and paving the way for widespread adoption. Docker’s container-related technology, in recent days, has generated huge excitement and clearly has massive potential. Its lighter weight makes it a much better fit for widely distributed cloud-based platforms and removes the need to collocate applications with an operating system inside a separate virtual machine.

Last week at VMworld 2014, VMware’s most significant announcements was the support of container technology by leveraging relationships with Google, Inc. and Docker, among others. VMware’s enterprise-ready container offering for virtual machines (VMs) is lighter and more efficient than a Linux implementation of Docker.

IBM is a recent search paper “An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers,” reveals that Docker equals or exceeds KVM performance in every case tested it performed.

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