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Docker Swarm Reviews & Product Details

User Insights

Average based on 21 real user reviews.

Yogesh G.
YG
Yogesh G.
Sr. Linux and Cloud Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Docker swarm cluster & replication"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

- Easily manage & Use

- I like you can easily create a cluster

- Replication

- Free & open source

- Easy to configure & Setup

- Large Community

- Documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

- Sometimes issue in file-related permission

- Difficult to troubleshoot

- I don't find any cons in a docker swarm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zafar I.
ZI
Zafar I.
Founder & CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes"
4/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

Docker Swarm is a lightweight platform for containers built-in Docker. It is easy to use and provides scalability and high availability for nodes. There are many orchestration tools but Docker Swarm stands out for light mode usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Docker Swarm does not handle complex orchestration requirements like bundling multi-containers into bundles i.e., pods. And each container is to be managed separately which is a bit cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Streamlining Container Deployment and Management: A Review of Docker Swarm"
4/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

Docker Swarm offers a relatively straightforward and easy-to-understand approach to container orchestration. It leverages Docker's familiar command-line interface (CLI) and API, making it accessible to users already familiar with Docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Compared to more robust orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm has a more limited feature set. It may not offer the same level of advanced functionalities, customizability, or ecosystem integrations as some other container orchestration tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham S.
SS
Shubham S.
MYSQL Database Administrator
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Docker and its uses with parallel things"
5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

One of the best things I've ever seen, providing me with a parallel working production environment. I am able to configure multiple services on a single platform. Compared to other VMs and managed services, this offers a better containerization solution. You can divide your heavy productions into high availability microservices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Restarting Docker sometimes causes issues with its claims. We have to maintain a special directory and mount our data to make it persistent; otherwise, the data will be lost and cannot be recovered after a restart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul R.
RR
Rahul R.
DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Services deploy using socker swarm"
5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

Using Docker Swarm, we can run images with containers and create images with tags. It is helpful for deployment, as we can deploy our services using its images. Docker Swarm is a very good platform for creating our images and running our containers. Its performance is excellent, and it is very reliable and easy to use. Its services are very good for making any Docker images for deployment to our project. It is very helpful for Kubernetes, as it allows us to easily create our pods in Kubernetes. So, according to me, we can use Docker Swarm. Its performance and features are all good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

There are no bad aspects to it. It processes slowly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gulab P.
GP
Gulab P.
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The big bull in containerised world."
5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

The first thing about the swarm which I like is its installation of it. It is very easy to install and manage the docker swarm. Compose file is easy to understand. Establishing a cluster very easy. Easy networking. We can define nodes with label and anotaions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Docker swarm is very easy to use but it's not popular in comparison to Kubernetes. It should have features like Kubernetes so that it could not lose popularity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Docker Swarm :- Orchestration tool alternate of Kubernetes"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

Docker swarm is very easy to use, lightweight and takes less time to understand as compared to other complex Orchestration tools. It does the automatic load balancing within the Docker containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

First of all, features are limited, not a big community as compared to Kubernetes. Here, high availability and fault tolerance capability are also limited and mainly scalability of Docker containers must be done manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiklavya D.
AD
Aiklavya D.
Database Administrator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Make your life easy with Docker Swarm"
5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

There are multiple container orchestration solutions available today docker has docker swarm and it is very useful there are others but it depends on your use case you can use whatever you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

There are no such thing all things are fine it can be become better by scaling feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HD
Harishchandra D.
Module Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Docker Swarm"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

The good news is there is a big ecosystem of providers specific to IoT ranging from bottom (device hardware packages, sensors, radio boards, OS, etc) to middle (distributed network fabric, fleet management, data collection) to top (data aggregation and analysis) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Docker Swarm primarily offers manual scalability and offers limited ability to automatically provision resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use orchestration tool"
4/5
What do you like best about Docker Swarm?

Docker Swarm is easy to use orchestration tool and it is more lightweight and simple to install than Kubernetes. The cluster configuration is an easy installation. Docker swarm's faster deploy application and provides high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Docker Swarm?

Docker swarm no build-in monitoring always uses third party tool. Docker swarm relies only on transport layer security, Docker Swarm provides limited customization and extensions and less functionality compared to Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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