Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
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Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#2Sadly like many Docker Swarm based projects, this has become abandonware. I use Docker Swarm with Portainer for managing services with ecoeats[1], a decision that was made years ago, just before Swarm was revealed to be absolutely dead in the water. I initially used Swarmlet before switching to Portainer, as there were far too many bugs and missing tools needed to effectively manage a Swarm that went beyond stateless Node containers.
With Portainer and Swarm I've been forced to manually intervene with rollouts more times than I would have liked due to Swarm-specific errors and other quirky networking behaviour. At least it's simpler than Kubernetes!
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#3Sadly like many Docker Swarm based projects, this has become abandonware. I use Docker Swarm with Portainer for managing services with ecoeats[1], a decision that was made years ago, just before Swarm was revealed to be absolutely dead in the water. I initially used Swarmlet before switching to Portainer, as there were far too many bugs and missing tools needed to effectively manage a Swarm that went beyond stateless…
I really liked the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup. But it indeed looks like abandonware, thanks for sharing your experience! If you would start over, would you choose for Portainer and Swarm again? Do you know of any alternatives to Swarmlet?
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#4I really like the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup, and I am looking for something similar to host a bunch of containers. Does anyone here have experience with such a tool, and what is your experience regarding reliability?
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#5I really like the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup, and I am looking for something similar to host a bunch of containers. Does anyone here have experience with such a tool, and what is your experience regarding reliability?
You might want to check out dokku
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#6I really like the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup, and I am looking for something similar to host a bunch of containers. Does anyone here have experience with such a tool, and what is your experience regarding reliability?
Yarn is a PaaS that deploys through a git push, without additional setup deployment is done from a hosted site with additional setup . . .
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#7Not worth the effort. Best to learn k8s. Inertia is a thing; and k8s has the ecosystem behind it. It’s also a vibrant project and is evolving.
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#8Sadly like many Docker Swarm based projects, this has become abandonware. I use Docker Swarm with Portainer for managing services with ecoeats[1], a decision that was made years ago, just before Swarm was revealed to be absolutely dead in the water. I initially used Swarmlet before switching to Portainer, as there were far too many bugs and missing tools needed to effectively manage a Swarm that went beyond stateless…
portainer now has a banner to subscribe as well on the free version
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#9Not worth the effort. Best to learn k8s. Inertia is a thing; and k8s has the ecosystem behind it. It’s also a vibrant project and is evolving.
Best to stay the hell away from k8s if you care about being productive. You're not Google and we'll all be better for it when everyone admits that fact.
Re: Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
#10Swarm was great. Docker/Moby should never have abandoned it.
Kubernetes solves a similar class of problems to Swarm, but in a much more complex way. Sometimes that complexity helps solve problems. For many organizations, though, Swarm would have been the better option.
Both Swarm and Kubernetes have their purposes. I'm sad that no option has popped up to replace Swarm in the "simple and easy container orchestration" space. Now it's either Kubernetes or... ECS, I guess.