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Classic Swarm has been archived and is no longer actively developed. You may want touse the Swarm mode built into the Docker Engine instead, or another orchestration system.

Docker Swarm "Classic" is native clustering for Docker. It turns a pool of Docker hostsinto a single, virtual host.

Docker Swarm "Classic" standalone: This project. A native clustering system forDocker. It turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual host using anAPI proxy system. SeeDocker Swarm overview.It was Docker's first container orchestration project that began in 2014.

Swarmkit: Clustermanagement and orchestration features in Docker Engine 1.12 or later. When Swarmkitis enabled we call Docker Engine running in swarm mode. See thefeature list:Swarm mode overview.This project focuses on micro-service architecture. It supports servicereconciliation, load balancing, service discovery, built-in certificate rotation, etc.

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