Why use Swarm
There are many reasons to use a clustering solution for your containers. As you will see your applications growing, you will face new mandatory requirements, such as scalability, manageability, and high availability.
There are many tools available out there; picking up Docker Swarm gives us some immediate advantages:
- Native clustering: Swarm is a native in Docker and made by the Docker team and community. Its original creators are Andrea Luzzardi and Victor Vieux, who are the early implementers of Docker Engine Remote API itself. Swarm integrates, with no additional requirements, with Machine, Compose, and the other tools from the ecosystem.
- Production grade: Swarm v1 was declared mature in November 2015 and is ready to be used in production. ...
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