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title: Frequently Asked Questions
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## What is the Cooperative Cloud?
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The Cooperative Cloud is a platform built by and for worked-owned technology
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cooperatives which proposes a shared social and technical infrastructure for
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the operation and management of free software applications.
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## What about <insert-your-favourite-alternative\>?
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### Cloudron
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- 👍 Lovely web interface for application, domain & user management
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- 👍 Bigger library of applications
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- 👍 Built-in SSO using LDAP, which is compatible with more applications and often has a better user interface than OAuth
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- 👍 Most applications are actively maintained by the Cloudron team
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- 👎 Moving away from open source. Free version has a 1-application limit
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- 👎 Based on Docker images, not stacks, so multi-process applications (e.g. parsoid for Mediawiki) are a non-starter
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- 👎 Difficult to extend applications
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- 👎 Only supported on Ubuntu
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- 👎 Upstreams free software communities aren't involved
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### YunoHost
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- 👍 Lovely web interface for application, domain & user management
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- 👍 Bigger library of applications
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- 👍 Awesome backup / deploy / restore continuous integration testing
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- 👍 Supports hosting applications in subdirectories as well as subdomains
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- 👍 Doesn't require a public-facing IP
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- 👎 Upstreams free software communities aren't involved
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- 👎 Often not idempotent: uninstalling applications leaves growing cruft
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### Ansible
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- 👍 Includes server creation and bootstrapping
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- 👎 Upstream free software communities aren't publishing Ansible roles
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- 👎 Lots of manual work involved in things like application isolation, backups, updates
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### Kubernetes
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- 👍 Helm charts are available for some key applications already
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- 👎 Too big -- requires 3rd party tools to run a single-node instance
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### Docker-compose
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- 👎 Manual work required for process monitoring
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- 👎 Secret storage not available yet
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- 👎 [Swarm is the new best practice](https://github.com/BretFisher/ama/issues/8#issuecomment-367575011)
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### Doing it Manually
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- 👍 Simple - just follow upstream instructions to install and update
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- 👎 Loads of manual work required for application isolation and backups
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- 👎 Array of sysadmin skills required to install applications
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- 👎 Hard to share configurations into the commons
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