Hi just received an email from docker that they’re going to terminate “The services on Docker Cloud that provide application, node and swarm cluster management” on May 21. Since we’re running docker cloud with the DigitalOcean connection, I’m wondering how we could migrate without going to AWS, Google kubernetes or Azure container service. We’re very happy with Digital Ocean. Our whole automated build & (re)deploy system was build on Docker cloud. Can you guys help?
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I too want to stick with DigitalOcean. In our case, since we are only running single-node deployments on Docker Cloud (one node per customer with each node running a single Stack file), we will likely switch to using Docker Machine to provision DigitalOcean hosts, adjust our Stack files to become Compose files, then use Docker Compose to deploy the containers to those hosts.
Email me at jwilson@digitalocean.com if you want to talk specifics and we can work through what a good solution would be.
Unfortunately it sounds like there are two solutions, deploy your own Docker tooling to Droplets (or VMs on any provider) and manually manage your stack, and converting your workload to Kubernetes.
For the former, there is an article on our tutorial site: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-cluster-of-docker-containers-with-docker-swarm-and-digitalocean-on-ubuntu-16-04
For the latter, there is a great tool here: http://kompose.io/ to convert your workload to Kubernetes.
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