JBjbeda·Dec 4, 2014
Update: the discovery endpoint is pretty simple and now documented: https://github.com/docker/swarm/blob/master/discovery/README...
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Swarm Classic: a container clustering system. Not to be confused with Docker Swarm which is at https://github.com/docker/swarmkit
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What it is
Swarm Classic: a container clustering system. Not to be confused with Docker Swarm which is at https://github.com/docker/swarmkit
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
I would definitely check out a number of docker related technologies. To answer your question, we don't have our software out in Docker yet, but it's coming, and it will make a…
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- moby/swarmkit · linked in 6 of the same discussions
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- moby/moby · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
7 sources> I felt like in the beginning I could rely on Docker being focused on containers
This whole "wheres docker going" thing is getting blown way out of proportion. Docker Swarm was built by ONLY 2 people on the docker team (https://github.com/docker/swarm/) and they are totally separate binaries. Thats like saying I cant use Google X anymore because Google is building Google Y...
Some of these considerations are valid (vendor lockin, etc), but they've been valid for a long time. Nothing changed today or the day rocket was launched.
Disclaimer: I like docker but I have no horse in this race, my only affiliation is using docker.
In Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed AppsThese are completely separate projects, not baked into Docker.
github.com/docker/machine
github.com/docker/swarm
In Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed AppsBoth Machine and Swarm are not baked into Docker – they are separate projects and binaries:
https://github.com/docker/machine
https://github.com/docker/swarm
Compose is still in the design proposal stage. We want to hear whether you think it should be built into Docker or not: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9459
In Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed AppsSwarm: a Docker-native clustering system
8 points · Open discussionGitHub repo for Machine: https://github.com/docker/machine
GitHub repo for Swarm: https://github.com/docker/swarm
Compose is still being designed in the open. If you want to have a say about how it works, check out the proposal: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/9459
In Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed AppsSwarm: a Docker-native clustering system
6 points · Open discussion