Going with Docker Swarm in 2022 TL;DR: Docker Swarm is probably good enough in a lot of cases. See the update for 2023 Having worked professionally on setting up, customising and deploying Kubernetes (but without pretending to be a specialist), I didn’t want to go down that path for my personal infrastructure, even if using Jsonnet was of great help (see my Jsonnet course here). I tried Nomad which worked fine, but getting it to do what I wanted was taking more time than I hoped.