Swarm was eventually overwhelmed (pun intended) by the uptake of Kubernetes across the industry, and this was when it died the first time: it lost the platform wars and became the very first commodity in the cloud native ecosystem.
![dockershim](https://www.tariqislam.com/images/dockershim.png)
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Docker was never the runtime.