According to [1], this is not true - it was intended to be an additive option.
[1] https://www.bretfisher.com/is-swarm-dead-answered-by-a-docke... from https://forums.docker.com/t/is-there-a-roadmap-for-docker-sw...
[1] https://www.bretfisher.com/is-swarm-dead-answered-by-a-docke... from https://forums.docker.com/t/is-there-a-roadmap-for-docker-sw...
Even today a big PR was pulled in to improve the scalability of Swarm https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37372
More updates here https://github.com/docker/swarmkit/issues/2665#issuecomment-...
I think the Kubernetes and Swarm devs have generally leveraged IPVS as the next step from iptables. Any thoughts on going straight to BPF ?