Tags: docker, docker-compose, docker swarm, proxy, loadbalancing Ashamed to admit, I still use Swarm in 2025. It's easy to explain, quick to set up, and simple to use. It's a starting point in the world of containers when full-blown Kubernetes is overkill. But Docker's evolution hasn't been the most straightforward. Over time, it began to lack a minimal dynamic proxy for Swarm - one that you run once, which configures traffic routing to microservices automatically - and forget about it. That's how Millau was born - an ingress-proxy and load balancer based on labels. It currently powers its own website and a few other projects. Read more