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Swarm was interesting, but it seems that both SwarmKit and "Classic Swarm" are dead[1][2], with no real activity since 2018. Kubernetes, for better or for wors
by orf 7y ago
Swarm was interesting, but it seems that both SwarmKit and "Classic Swarm" are dead[1][2], with no real activity since 2018.
Kubernetes, for better or for worse, has clearly completely won. Not that this article isn't interesting for it's own sake, but it's just something to consider.
1. https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/graphs/contributors https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/graphs/contributors
2. https://github.com/docker/classicswarm/graphs/contributors https://github.com/docker/classicswarm/graphs/contributors
- 1_player 7y agoSwarmKit and ClassicSwarm are not "docker swarm", but AFAIK precursors of it until they've been merged into Docker itself. As a production user of Docker Swarm though, it is effectively dead and I've been planning a migration to k8s ASAP.
- justincormack 7y agoSwarmkit is the code that runs "Docker Swarm", it is vendored in to build it. I don't think anyone really uses Classic Swarm any more, and it was a precursor.
- 1_player 7y agoI stand corrected, thanks.
- zenlot 7y agoThat’s very sad to see Docker Swarm declining. I run few production clusters, all are being set up via Ansible and Wireguard for communication. The setup takes only few minutes and runs perfectly fine. It's been running for a while and I haven't had any issues with clusters, as well as it doesn't require maintenance. While Kubernetes is great, it requires a lot of maintenance and setup isn't straightforward. Sometimes you don't need additional complexity and want things just to run and pretty much forget.