D2K. A Docker “translator” for Kubernetes In a world that has fallen in love with Kubernetes, but largely forgotten Docker Swarm, what fate lays ahead for those still running Swarm. A migration of apps to Kubernetes is much more involved than many think, often also requiring a new CI/CD, new operational tooling, and reskilling the dev and ops teams responsble for the platform. Portainer has just released d2k, a Docker translator for Kubernetes. This is a totally free and OSS product, with no ties into the Portainer product. You deploy d2k inside a Kubernetes namespace, and then that d2k instance exposes itself as a Docker daemon listening on 2375/2376. Your dev and ops staff can now interact with that daemon as if it was a docker host (deploy apps using compose etc).. Even better, with a simple ENV setting, d2k will also emulate Docker Swarm, allowing you to use docker swarm functions right there on your Kube cluster. “Docker node ls” will show your Kube nodes.…