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Understanding Docker Swarm

Nov 15, 2025

Why We Love Docker Swarm

While Kubernetes gets all the hype, Docker Swarm remains a robust and incredibly simple solution for container orchestration.

Simplicity First

Swarm is built into the Docker engine. There's no extra binary to install. If you have Docker, you have Swarm.

Features

  • Declarative Service Model: Define the desired state of the services in your application stack.
  • Scaling: For each service, you can declare the number of tasks you want to run.
  • Rolling Updates: minimal downtime updates out of the box.

At FlyPloy, we leverage Swarm to give you the power of orchestration without the headache of K8s management.