In a setting where you are deploying to production a simple app on a single host, what are the benefits and drawbacks of these three options: simply use docker compose, like in development create a network with --driver=bridge, --scope=swarm and use swarm mode via docker stack deploy use docker st…

Single host deployment: docker compose vs docker stack deploy (bridge driver, swarm scope) vs docker stack deploy (overlay driver)

meyay (Metin Y.) November 27, 2024, 4:30pm 8

You might find this post about swarm template placeholders useful: Example usage of docker swarm template placeholders. They can be in hostnames as well.

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