swarmkit VS docker-stack-deploy

Compare swarmkit vs docker-stack-deploy and see what are their differences.

swarmkit

A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more. (by moby)
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swarmkit docker-stack-deploy
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3,241 29
1.2% -
8.2 5.2
9 days ago 2 months ago
Go Python
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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swarmkit

Posts with mentions or reviews of swarmkit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.
  • Questions about Swarm mode
    1 project | /r/docker | 26 Jun 2023
    It's supported, though the development pace is rather slow. The are new features (the latest release brought support for the Container Storage Interface) and bugs and issues are worked on by the few maintainers the project has. You can check the repo here: https://github.com/moby/swarmkit
  • K8s vs Docker Swarm
    2 projects | /r/homelab | 26 May 2023
    So the thing is support for Swarm was delegated to Mirantis, https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-will-continue-to-support-and-develop-docker-swarm/ since it was delegated very little was done to move forward swarm _> https://github.com/moby/swarmkit/commits/master , docker swarm itself (docker the company) is deprecated https://github.com/docker-archive/classicswarm . I think because there's no way to monetize swarm there's no real push for new features hence my assumption of deprecation.
  • Feature request: Enable "--device" in "stack deploy" for Confidential Computing
    1 project | /r/DockerSwarm | 17 Apr 2023
    Feature request: Enable "--device" in "stack deploy" for Confidential Computing
  • Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2023
    This doesn't look that abandoned? https://github.com/moby/swarmkit

    Or are you talking about swarm the product (versus docker swarm mode)

  • Docker 23.0.0 is out
    4 projects | /r/docker | 2 Feb 2023
    I don’t feel a momentum in Docker Swarm development, seeing pull requests like #3072 sitting idle for half a year, originally from 2016.
  • Looking to containerize a large production scale nodejs app
    3 projects | /r/docker | 26 Jan 2023
    privileged not being supported is problematic, but there are PRs for it on swarmkit, see https://github.com/moby/swarmkit/pull/3072 - let's see if that gets in.
  • high availability
    1 project | /r/docker | 12 Oct 2022
    swarm ha placement
  • Is docker still the solution for On-Premesis containerization?
    3 projects | /r/docker | 27 Sep 2022
    It is already in a different repo: moby/swarmkit
  • Help convincing IT/IS department to use Kubernetes
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 20 Oct 2021
    Docker Swarm is dead. It should not be used for new projects because the competitive products are much better and more optimal. Check their repo bro - last commit 3months ago. https://github.com/docker/swarmkit https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/ituysl/why_people_are_saying_docker_swarm_is_in_life/ Why would you start a project with a tool which got no future? Let's then use Silverlight or any shit like that.
  • Why docker swarm is not popular as Kubernetes?
    16 projects | /r/docker | 30 Jul 2021
    Mostly it just needs resource defaults merged and some abstract type support so load balancer config doesn't have to be entirely by labels and I would never shift from it.

docker-stack-deploy

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-stack-deploy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swarmkit and docker-stack-deploy you can also consider the following projects:

roadmap - Welcome to the Public Roadmap for All Things Docker! We welcome your ideas.

woodpecker - Woodpecker is a simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

docker - Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems [Moved to: https://github.com/moby/moby]

docker-stack-wait - Wait for a docker stack deploy to complete

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

mlToolKits - learningOrchestra is a distributed Machine Learning integration tool that facilitates and streamlines iterative processes in a Data Science project.

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

swarmsible - Ansible based Tooling and production grade example Docker Stacks. Updated with new learnings from running Docker Swarm in production

Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

ssh-script-dashboard - An interface for executing scripts locally, or remotely over SSH

distribution-spec - OCI Distribution Specification

nothelm-charts - nothelm.py charts (projects) for Docker Swarm