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>" I’ve spoken with several DevOps who argue that compared with running a Kubernetes or Mesos cluster, Docker Swarm is a snap."

I'm always leary of statements like that. My experience with cluster managers(Yarn, Mesos) and distributed systems in general is that they are almost never "a snap" to run once you move past trivial workloads and requirements.

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Not many startups move past trivial workloads. And if you do, it's a good problem to have. If swarm can get your mvp up quickly, it might be a good choice.

Yep, that's my exact experience with Swarm (1.13). I want the higher-level abstractions like K8s Pods and Deployments, but I absolutely cannot wait around for Swarm to stabilize those kind of things.

My experience with Docker Swarm has been great. I came from Kubernetes but found it way too complex for my needs.

The author is (mis)quoting me there. I meant the initial process of installing and getting Swarm running is much easier than k8s or Mesos, not that on-going maintenance was easier.

Also, since I wrote that, k8s has done a lot of work to simplify installation with kubeadm and other improvements.

Ah OK. Yeah doing a greenfield deployment is one thing, "operationalizing" it is often more involved.

For Mesos anyone if is interested and you are Ansivle shop you can look at Ansible Shipyard to simplify an install.

https://github.com/AnsibleShipyard

Kubeadm looks interesting. Thanks.

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