Simple view of the Docker Enterprise cluster architecture

Docker Enterprise provides a secure cluster management foundation that is backed by two orchestrators: Docker Swarm, built into Docker Engine-Community, and CNCF's Kubernetes, the leading born-in-the-cloud orchestration platform. When you install Docker Enterprise's Universal Control Plane (UCP), both orchestrators are installed and ready to go. This includes default overlay networking to allow container network communication between containers located on different nodes in the cluster and service discovery. Figure 5 illustrates your scheduler choice across a collection of cluster-managed worker nodes. Notice that Docker Enterprise relies on Swarm's secure cluster-based management ...

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