> I actually liked swarm, but it lost. "lost" is too strong of a word. To me Docker swarm mode still holds the upper hand in terms of deployment ease and simpl

> I actually liked swarm, but it lost. "lost" is too strong of a word. To me Docker swarm mode still holds the upper hand in terms of deployment ease and simplicity. If anyone just wants to bolt together a couple of nodes without much concern regarding performance then Docker swarm mode is perhaps the best option out there at the moment. However, this is changing very fast. Ubuntu now ships with microk8s which just works and outperforms Docker swarm mode. Perhaps Docker swarm's worst enemy is how the project was managed and promoted. They had a tool to trivially setup a cluster of nodes with close to zero challenge, but somehow Kubernetes managed to be pushed as the only option.