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How we built our stack with Docker Swarm

Rubén Martín Pozo on May 07, 2018

When we started to think about the kind of architecture we wanted to build for Playtomic we knew what we didn't want to end up with: a huge monolit...
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Alex Miasoiedov • Edited

Docker swarm is awesome for small infra. I used to provision swarm cluster of 10-100 machines in DO within a 10 minutes. Comparing to Mesos/DCOS Kubernetes that's super easy to maintain and manage.

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Rubén Martín Pozo

I totally agree. I hope we'll be able to scale it up quite a bit as we grow. We also use Ansible to provision cluster nodes. Docker Swarm's ease of configuration and Ansible are a perfect match.