> I certainly hope so - Swarm is a wonderful orchestration system for small deployments (at least, I haven't tried to use it for large ones), and is really easy to use.
I would argue that Docker Swarm is a wonderful orchestration system for all practical real-world applications, with the notable exception of really global and gigantic multi-region deployments.
Docker Swarm works superbly out of the box and it's trivial to setup a multi-node heterogeneous cluster of COTS hardware and/or VM instances.
I think there's a more specific statement about k8s vs swam. Swam is much better at running other people's applications that you're treating largely as a black box -- k8s excels at running your in-house app. The simpler deployment model means there's far less environment specific weirdness you need to contend to to make an arbitrary app run.
The systems I've deployed with Swarm have generally been a mix of both - not sure why it would make a difference if you were running in-house or off-the-shelf images?
I would argue that Docker Swarm is a wonderful orchestration system for all practical real-world applications, with the notable exception of really global and gigantic multi-region deployments.
Docker Swarm works superbly out of the box and it's trivial to setup a multi-node heterogeneous cluster of COTS hardware and/or VM instances.