Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm is Docker's native container orchestration solution. Swarm provides native and deeper integration with Docker and exposes APIs that are compatible with Docker's remote APIs. It logically groups a pool of Docker hosts and manages them as a large single Docker virtual host. Instead of application administrators and developers deciding on which host the container is to be deployed, this decision making will be delegated to the Docker Swarm. It will decide which host to be used based on bin packing and spread algorithms.
Since the Docker Swarm is based on Docker's remote APIs, the learning curve for existing Docker users is much less compared to any other container orchestration tools. However, the Docker Swarm is a ...
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