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I'm also a user of Docker Swarm - and I love it! I have extensively played with k8s and feel it has a lot of upfront complexity (especially ingress).

I feel people who are beginning to scale from one machine to 10 will love Docker Swarm (and stick with it). While those who have about 100 machines will start with Mesos/K8s.

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There's no direct migration path from Swarm to Kubernetes, so we chose to start out at a small scale with the latter. It was enough of a leap to fundamentally change how we were building and deploying things. We didn't want to do it twice!

You can dodge much of the operational complexity in standing a cluster up by starting with Google Container Engine or a provisioner like kops. Once you have enough comfort, you can get more fancy and build something more customized to your cases.

actually - i think the other way.

I'm not sure if people who start with Docker Swarm will want to migrate to k8s at all. It works damn well and i have been very happy with it. It has been demonstrated to work at scale.

K8s does have Google behind it though

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