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Great to hear that. While I’m not a big fan of Docker desktop I really wish they restart docker swarm and kill thad abomination named Kubernetes.

Docker compose and swarm are really cool technologies - easy to start with and more than enough for small and medium companies.

I really hope they would bring it back and we start seeing managed swarm from cloud providers.

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HashiCorp Nomad is a nice alternative is something you can look into if you're looking for a lightweight Kubernetes replacement. Also, it doesn't support everything Kubernetes does, it should be enough for most use cases.

Thanks, been thinking about it. It looks really nice, but it’s really hard to beat how easily you can go from compose in local development to swarm on prod in small team.

OTOH, you can go from Nomad in local development to Nomad in production pretty easily, too.

Running k8s locally with kind isn't that bad either. Apart from having to load rebuilt images into the cluster all the time you can for most of the part reuse the same pod-manifests as you do in cloud environment.

Docker swarm was sold off.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-e...

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