swarmkit VS microk8s

Compare swarmkit vs microk8s 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)

microk8s

MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge. [Moved to: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s] (by ubuntu)
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swarmkit microk8s
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8.0 9.3
10 days ago almost 2 years ago
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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.

microk8s

Posts with mentions or reviews of microk8s. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
  • How to enable startup probe on GKE 1.16?
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 23 Jun 2023
    FROM postgres:11CMD sleep 30 && postgres I'm reusing this example from the same issue with microk8s where I could solve it by changing the kubelet and kubeapi-server configuration files (see https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/issues/770 in case you're interested). I assume this is not possible with GKE clusters as they don't expose these files, probably for good reasons.
  • How to configure kubernetes (microk8s) to use local docker images?
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 3 Apr 2023
    $ kubectl get podsNAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGEbackend-deployment-66cff7d4c6-gwbzf 0/1 ImagePullBackOff 0 18s Before that it was ErrImagePull. So, my question is, how to tell it to use local docker images? Somewhere on the internet I read that I need to build images using microk8s.docker but it seems to be removed.
  • I was so excited to join this community
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 21 Mar 2023
    There's a whole community of hobbyists building Raspberry Pi clusters, porting things to work on various Arm processors, exploring and contributing to minimalist distros like k0s and microk8s, etc.
  • no persistent volumes available for this claim and no storage class is set
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 21 Sep 2022
    same pvc worked fine on "GKE" (Google Kubernetes Engine) but failing in my local cluster using microk8s
  • Is Kubernetes Still Just an Ops Topic?
    4 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    Local Kubernetes Clusters: It is now possible to run Kubernetes on local machines with tools such as Kubernetes in Docker (kind), minikube or MicroK8s. This allows developers to run their first experiments completely isolated from others and with low risk and low cost.
  • Kubernetes Development Environments – A Comparison
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    Local Kubernetes clusters are clusters that are running on the individual computer of the developer. There are many tools that provide such an environment, such as Minikube, microk8s, k3s, or kind. While they are not all the same, their use as a development environment is quite comparable.
  • Local Cluster vs. Remote Cluster for Kubernetes-Based Development
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    Since the developer is the only one who has to access this cluster for development, local clusters can be a feasible solution for this purpose. Over time, several solutions have emerged that are particularly made for running Kubernetes in local environments. The most important ones are Kubernetes in Docker (kind), MicroK8s, minikube and k3s. For a comparison of these local Kubernetes options, you can look at this post.
  • The Journey of Adopting Cloud-Native Development
    9 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    Another very important distinction of this level is that developers have direct access to Kubernetes for the first time. While it is not strictly necessary, the standard case for the Kubernetes access with these tools is to use a local Kubernetes cluster, i.e. a Kubernetes cluster started with tools such as minikube, kind or MicroK8s on the local computer of the developer.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swarmkit and microk8s you can also consider the following projects:

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

microshift - A small form factor OpenShift/Kubernetes optimized for edge computing

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

rancher - Complete container management platform

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

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

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.

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

distribution-spec - OCI Distribution Specification

liqo - Enable dynamic and seamless Kubernetes multi-cluster topologies