It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
In system administration, orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, deployment, development, and management of computer systems and software.
Docker compose pretty much seems to check every one of these boxes.
Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?
“No”
– everyone using compose to orchestrate software deployments
spoiler
Yes it is, and there’s a age old joke about docker being used for configuration management, which doesn’t require a container system.
No
I answered no since it mentions Swarm but I wasn’t sure either
Oh lol I thought you were the author of the survey.
I said yes. Then it asks what platform you use and I clicked “Docker”.
It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
I guess it depends on what “orchestration” means to you… 🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
Docker compose pretty much seems to check every one of these boxes.
Eh fair enough