https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-acquires-docker-enter...
> Today we announced that we have acquired the Docker Enterprise platform business from Docker, Inc. including its industry leading Docker Enterprise and 750 customers.
> What About Docker Swarm? > The primary orchestrator going forward is Kubernetes. Mirantis is committed to providing an excellent experience to all Docker Enterprise platform customers and currently expects to support Swarm for at least two years, depending on customer input into the roadmap. Mirantis is also evaluating options for making the transition to Kubernetes easier for Swarm users.
Mirantis owns essentially all of Docker, outside of Docker for Desktop (someone correct me here if I'm wrong), now. They are saying that Swarm is not the future of Docker. It's entirely possible that the remainder of Docker, now a developer tooling company, will continue with Swarm, but it seems unlikely. Also possible the community will keep it alive. None of those maybes are things I'd bet my platform on though.
And it doesn't has to be that one kubernetes, your solution only has to be kubernetes certified. This will allow us all to use the kubernetes api and features with different underlying implementations (as far away from the original or as close as it can get).
This is new.