Difference between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes


Docker Swarm and Kubernetes both can be used for similar purpose. They both are container orchestration tool.

Docker Swarm is a tool used for clustering and scheduling Docker containers. We can easily establish and manage a cluster of Docker nodes under a single virtual system.

Kubernetes is also container orchestration tool which is developed by google. It can be used for automatic deployment ,scaling, load balancing  and logging and monitoring.

Sr. No.KeyDocker SwarmKubernetes
1
Basic
Kubernetes is also container orchestration tool which is developed by google. It can be used for automatic deployment ,scaling, load balancing  and logging and monitoring.


Docker Swarm is a tool used for clustering and scheduling Docker containers. We can easily establish and manage a cluster of Docker nodes under a single virtual system.


2
Deployment
It can be used for automatic deployment but not for automatic rollback
It can be used for automatic deployment as well as automatic rollback
3
Auto Scale
It can not do auto scaling
It can auto scaling
4.
Logging
No inbuilt tool for logging and monitoring but we can use third party tool
It has inbuilt logging tool
5
GUI
No GUI
It has very user friendly GUI

Updated on: 09-Sep-2020

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