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Did you use Docker Swarm in the previous revision? I've been quite happy with it for a few years now on a single-node cluster and a handful of services. I coul

by imiric 6y ago

Did you use Docker Swarm in the previous revision? I've been quite happy with it for a few years now on a single-node cluster and a handful of services. I could easily add another node, but haven't had the need to. The setup was quite simple and it requires practically no maintenance. If I have to reboot everything starts up automatically, image upgrades are a breeze, and I really have no issues with it. Sure it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a k8s cluster, but it's perfectly fine for personal use. I'm still partly annoyed that Swarm is mostly dead in this space and k8s has undoubtedly "won". It's only a matter of time before Docker Inc. fully abandons it. Such a shame.

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KronisLV 6y ago
Agreed, while i've dabbled in Kubernetes, most of my homelab and hybrid cloud infrastructure (think ~10-20 nodes) runs in Docker Swarm with Portainer for graphical administration. A while back i also tried Nomad, and while it felt polished, it was also a bit lacking in features (manual encryption config, mostly read-only UI, though that was a while back). It's a shame that Docker Swarm never got more popular, because in my mind it's basically the sweet spot between running containers directly or using Docker Compose and full blown Kubernetes distributions. The Compose manifest format that it uses is really great and clear in my mind, instead of Kubernetes with all of its selectors, object types and so on.