Yea I had a not dissimilar experience. I didn’t have as many issues, but I pretty quickly realized a single old gaming Pc was way easier than a half dozen Pis stacked up in the closet trying to coordinate. Auto scaling and balancing seem nice at work… but complexity was rarely needed at home.
The main reasons swarm is better than other options for clustering IMO is networking. They can be set up to share the ports on all devices and map it back to the correct container on whatever host it’s on, so you can disconnect the target IP:Port from the container.
The main reasons swarm is better than other options for clustering IMO is networking. They can be set up to share the ports on all devices and map it back to the correct container on whatever host it’s on, so you can disconnect the target IP:Port from the container.