I put yes. Then it asks what platform you use and I clicked “Docker”.
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wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Is using Docker Compose considered orchestration?
paequ2@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
rmrf@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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
paequ2@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I guess it depends on what “orchestration” means to you… 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_(computing)
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.
rmrf@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Eh fair enough
rmrf@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
No
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
I answered no since it mentions Swarm but I wasn’t sure either
wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh lol I thought you were the author of the survey.
mlg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“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.