Redmine

Hi all,

I am really happy to announce the availability of a Redmine LXC container here. We love LXC and believe it makes it really easy for end users to deploy apps. The fantastic portability and near bare-metal performance of containers make it an extremely flexible tool for users.

We recently launched Flockport which provides ready to use LXC containers of popular apps. We have a Redmine instance ready to download and use. See the Redmine container in action here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq-0U-fxKTw

Containers are like lightweight virtual machines, that let your run multiple Linux OS containers within your host OS. So you could be running a Debian host with for instance multiple Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu containers and vice versa. And the biggie is these containers are portable across Linux systems. So you can backup, clone or move your complete Redmine installation across servers with minimum fuss, just zip it and move!

Even better containers operate at near bare-metal speeds, there is no virtualization overhead. This is fantastic technology for end users and the only reason its not seen more widespread adoption and use is due to lack of marketing by the Ubuntu supported LXC project.

Linux containers (LXC) has been baking since 2009 and is supported natively in the Linux kernel. Most distributions have LXC packages available and its mostly an apt-get install away. Debian is the only exception with outdated lxc packages and we host an updated LXC repo for Debian.

To use the Flockport Redmine container you need to install LXC and download the Redmine container. This frees you from installing and configuring web stacks and apps, just download a container and you are read to go.

We have tons of guides and videos to help users along. There are currently over 40 apps that users can download and launch in seconds like Discourse, Redmine, Gitlab, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla. Would love to hear your feedback.