swarmkit VS kops

Compare swarmkit vs kops 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)

kops

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management (by kubernetes)
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swarmkit kops
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3,229 15,515
1.6% 0.7%
8.2 9.9
9 days ago about 16 hours ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    3 projects | /r/docker | 26 Jan 2023
    Yeah, but it seems dozens of users is not enough to really keep Docker Swarm up-to-date. privileged not working in Swarm (issue #1030 from 2016, again pull request #3072 from 2022), configs and secrets not update-able (workaround) and not write-able within container, I find that really annoying.
  • 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
    3 projects | /r/docker | 27 Sep 2022
    The sad thing is there are issues and even pull requests open since 2016, but it seems no one cares anymore. Mirantis bought the Docker Swarm part, but it does not show up as product on their homepage, there seems little development, despite their positive posts. Sometimes Docker employees accept some changes to the repo.
  • 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.
  • I’m a software engineer that had to learn ops. I am not always sure how to set thinks properly. Any course / tutorial to follow?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 7 Jun 2021
    This is your first mistake, imho. Last activity in their github repo is two months ago development has either been paused or halted. Use EKS.

kops

Posts with mentions or reviews of kops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swarmkit and kops you can also consider the following projects:

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

rancher - Complete container management platform

kubeadm - Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS

helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager

aws-node-termination-handler - Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes

k9s - 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally

terraform-aws-openshift - Create infrastructure with Terraform and AWS, install OpenShift. Party!