https://blog.fabricesemti.com/tags/cilium/Recent content in Cilium on My devblogHugoenCopyright &copy; 2023 Fabrice Semti - All rights reserverdWed, 27 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://blog.fabricesemti.com/blog/27-05-2026-from-swarm-to-k8s/Wed, 27 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://blog.fabricesemti.com/blog/27-05-2026-from-swarm-to-k8s/<p>If you&rsquo;ve been following the <a href="https://blog.fabricesemti.com/categories/homelab/">&ldquo;Here Comes the Swarm&rdquo; series</a>, you know I had a perfectly good Docker Swarm running. Six nodes, three managers, three workers, all humming along nicely. So why would I throw that away for Kubernetes?</p> <p>Well, I didn&rsquo;t throw it away. I evolved it.</p> <h2 id="why-the-switch" class="relative group">Why the Switch? <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100"><a class="group-hover:text-primary-300 dark:group-hover:text-neutral-700" style="text-decoration-line: none !important;" href="#why-the-switch" aria-label="Anchor">#</a></span></h2><p>Look, Docker Swarm is great. It&rsquo;s simple, it just works, and you can go from zero to a running cluster in about 15 minutes. But over time, I kept bumping into the same walls:</p>