Kubernetes
Kubernetes is well rounded in most areas of func-
tionality. Recent updates have made large scale
deployments a reality and improved the existing
smooth update process. Combine that with the back-
ing of an organization that starts 2 billion containers
a week and has been working in the container world
for ten years and you have a formidable product that
is already maturing rapidly.
Swarm
Swarm is the youngest of the bunch, but Docker has
made huge strides in the past year. Docker has made
big improvements to networking and the talent there
is sure to continue to evolve Swarm over the next
year. If you’re a small Docker-only shop you may not
need the extra benefits of the other tools. Thanks to
the swarm-kubernetes integration work you can
always adopted and combine another orchestration
layer as you grow.
Closing
The container landscape is still very young and rap-
idly evolving. Swarm and Machine are not even a year
past initial beta and 1.0 for Swarm only happened at
the beginning of November. Only about 18 months has
passed since the Kubernetes project was released.
Even Mesos is relatively new to the scene with its
Docker container frameworks. Despite this, we’ve
seen tremendous growth and evolution this year in all
three. Expect the core capabilities of all the tools to
continue to improve quickly.
Still overwhelmed and just want something you don’t
need to worry about?
Both Google and AWS provide managed container
services. Google Container Engine (GKE) and Ama-
zon’s Elastic Container Service (ECS) both offer a
managed orchestration approach. Visit The Doppler
blog at cloudtp.com/insights for more on these
services.
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