The stuck issue is not a limitation of Swarm, but was a bug that has gotten fixed in 18.06 - https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37493 https://github.com/moby/m

The stuck issue is not a limitation of Swarm, but was a bug that has gotten fixed in 18.06 - https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37493 https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37493 Rollback has existed for a while now - https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/service_rollback/ https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/service... . you can actually tune the parallelism and the delay