Docker Swarm

SwarmForge is a local, tmux-based orchestration platform for coordinating multiple AI agents across Git worktrees. It reads a project-local configuration that assigns roles, agent backends, worktrees, task or batch handling, and handoff propagation; launches each role in an isolated tmux session; and provides a browser-based pack cockpit for projects, tasks, approvals, clarifications, live status, agent-pane inspection, and teardown. Agents communicate through a daemon-delivered handoff protocol and helper scripts rather than direct tmux messages. The repository supplies two-pack, four-pack, and six-pack workflow templates with role prompts and constitution articles, while projects can define their own swarm topology. It runs locally with zsh, Git, tmux, Babashka, and at least one supported agent backend such as Claude, Codex, Copilot, or Grok; swarm state is kept in the working director

Dockge is a self-hosted web manager for Docker Compose stacks. It manages compose.yaml files without taking ownership of them: users can create, edit, start, stop, restart, delete, and update stacks, while continuing to use the files with normal Docker Compose commands. Its interface includes an interactive Compose editor, a web terminal, and real-time pull, startup, shutdown, and terminal output. Multiple-agent support allows stacks on different Docker hosts to be managed from one interface, and a converter turns docker run commands into compose.yaml files. Dockge runs with Docker 20 or newer or Podman on supported Linux distributions, and the repository documents Docker-based installation with a default port of 5001.

HashiCorp Nomad is a workload scheduler and orchestrator for deploying and managing containerized and non-containerized applications across on-premises environments and cloud infrastructure. It expresses workloads as jobs, schedules them onto clusters, and uses task drivers to execute different types of tasks; job specifications can include parameterized behavior, placement affinities, preemption, retries, and node rescheduling. Nomad supports integrations such as Consul for service discovery, health checking, and service mesh capabilities, and Vault for secrets. It is a competitor in the container-orchestration ecosystem, where Kubernetes ultimately prevailed. HashiCorp provides a CLI, tutorials, a sandbox, production guidance, and an Enterprise edition with features including access control, resource quotas, Sentinel integration, and encrypted cluster traffic.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It manages containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing mechanisms for deploying, maintaining, scaling, and scheduling workloads. Applications can be configured with YAML and deployed across hybrid-cloud environments; the platform is also used for production operations involving storage, databases, networking, and security hardening.

Docker Sandboxes is a Docker-developed proprietary tool for running AI coding agents and other workloads inside isolated microVMs on a local machine or Docker-managed cloud infrastructure. Each sandbox has its own kernel and filesystem, controls access to the host filesystem, network, and tools, provides a private Docker daemon for test containers, uses secret placeholders, blocks network access by default, and records an audit trail. It supports agents including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode, with configurable network and filesystem rules, read-only mounts, MCP catalogs, and policy-based governance controls. It is distributed as the `sbx` command-line tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with stable, release-candidate, and nightly builds.