Container Orchestration Considerations
summary
Compares Kubernetes vs Swarm with concrete tradeoffs: Kubernetes offers pods, custom metrics and complex networking; Swarm gives Docker CLI familiarity, built‑in mutual TLS and easier setup. Cites surprising market figures — 21M Docker hosts and ~12B image downloads in 2017 — and warns about autoscaling based only on CPU. Demonstrates a Docker EE stack deploy: 6 front‑end replicas, 3 backend replicas, scales to 50 replicas live, works; Docker EE adds Kubernetes integration so one cluster can run both orchestrators.
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