Docker Swarm in AWS

Docker Swarm represents Docker's native container management platform that is built right into the Docker Engine, and for many people who are using Docker for the first time, Docker Swarm is the first container management platform that they read and learn about, given that it is an integrated feature of the Docker Engine. Docker Swarm is naturally a competitor to the ECS, Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, and recent Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) offerings supported by AWS, so you might be wondering why a book on Docker in AWS would have a chapter dedicated to Docker Swarm. Many organizations prefer to use cloud-agnostic container management platforms that they can run on AWS, other cloud providers such as Google Cloud and Azure, as well as on premises, and if this is the case for you and your organization, then Docker Swarm is certainly an option worth considering...