> I'll be back to the docs for secrets, stateful containers, volume mounts, cert management, instrumentation, health checks, load balancing etc. Almost all of

> I'll be back to the docs for secrets, stateful containers, volume mounts, cert management, instrumentation, health checks, load balancing etc. Almost all of your points are on one page in the doc (just google 'docker-compose file') which is read and used in 5 minutes. Btw, load balancing is the default, no real config required (still you can but the defaults are sensible). Anyway, you are usually 5x to 10x faster than with setting up an k8s cluster. This should be a good enough reason to give it a try and to make your own picture of Swarm. It is up to you but I think you have a wrong picture of Swarm. Something huge, conplicated and intimidating like k8s. Something you should spend your weekend and the week after to learn. This is wrong. Just see is as another CLI tool which you can grasp in the next hour (instead of surfing the web).