[lordpankake]

Sadly like many Docker Swarm based projects, this has become abandonware. I use Docker Swarm with Portainer for managing services with ecoeats[1], a decision that was made years ago, just before Swarm was revealed to be absolutely dead in the water. I initially used Swarmlet before switching to Portainer, as there were far too many bugs and missing tools needed to effectively manage a Swarm that went beyond stateless Node containers.

With Portainer and Swarm I've been forced to manually intervene with rollouts more times than I would have liked due to Swarm-specific errors and other quirky networking behaviour. At least it's simpler than Kubernetes!

[1] https://ecoeats.uk

[mono-bob]

I really liked the option to deploy through a git push without additional setup. But it indeed looks like abandonware, thanks for sharing your experience! If you would start over, would you choose for Portainer and Swarm again? Do you know of any alternatives to Swarmlet?

[grepfru_it]

Portainer can poll your git repo and supports webhooks. I went with portainer early on and haven't looked back.

[the_common_man]

portainer now has a banner to subscribe as well on the free version

[sschueller]

Portainer also has default opt-out analytics via matomo. According to their github the analytics are in Germany but the DNS points to server in France at the moment. Either way, I find it questionable to have analytics running on self hosted open source software.

[the_common_man]

Oh, i wasn't aware of this