Swarmpit

Lightweight AI-friendly Docker Swarm management

Swarmpit provides simple and easy to use interface for your Docker Swarm cluster. You can manage your stacks, services, secrets, volumes, networks etc. After linking your Docker Hub account or custom registry, private repositories can be easily deployed on Swarm. Best of all, you can share this management console securely with your whole team.

Everything the UI does is also exposed via a REST API (Swagger docs at /api-docs on any running instance) and, for LLM-driven workflows, an MCP server — so you can automate deployments or drive Swarmpit from any MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, opencode, etc.).

Swarmpit doesn't compromise your privacy as it is completely self-hosted and will never gather any metrics or other data from you.

More details about future and past releases can be found in ROADMAP.md

Installation

The only dependency for Swarmpit deployment is Docker with Swarm initialized, we are supporting Docker 1.13 and newer. Linux hosts on x86 and ARM architectures are supported as well.

Package installer

Installer is your guide to setup Swarmpit platform. For more details see the installer

Stable version

Deploy our current milestone version

docker run -it --rm \
  --name swarmpit-installer \
  --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  swarmpit/install:1.9

Edge version

Deploy latest version for the brave and true

docker run -it --rm \
  --name swarmpit-installer \
  --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  swarmpit/install:edge

Manual installation

Deploy Swarmpit by using a compose file from our git repo with branch of corresponding version.

git clone https://github.com/swarmpit/swarmpit -b master
docker stack deploy -c swarmpit/docker-compose.yml swarmpit

For ARM based cluster use custom compose file.

git clone https://github.com/swarmpit/swarmpit -b master
docker stack deploy -c swarmpit/docker-compose.arm.yml swarmpit

This stack is a composition of 4 services:

• app - Swarmpit
• agent - Swarmpit agent
• db - CouchDB (Application data)
• influxdb - InfluxDB (Cluster statistics)

Feel free to edit the stackfile to change an application port and we strongly recommend to specify following volumes:

• db-data
• influxdb-data

to shared-volume driver type of your choice. Alternatively, you can link db service to the specific node by using constraint.

Swarmpit is published on port 888 by default.

Environment Variables

Refer to following document

MCP Server

Manage Swarmpit from any MCP-compatible client (Claude Code, opencode, etc.) via swarmpit/mcp. The server runs locally and holds API tokens — they never enter the LLM conversation context.

Generate a token in Swarmpit UI: Profile → API Access → Generate token, then add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swarmpit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["github:swarmpit/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SWARMPIT_URL": "https://swarmpit.example.com",
        "SWARMPIT_TOKEN": "your-api-token",
        "SWARMPIT_REDACT": "sensitive"
      }
    }
  }
}

See the mcp repo for the full tool list, redaction modes, and multi-instance setup.

User Configuration

By default Swarmpit offers you to configure first user using web interface. If you want to automate this process, you can use docker config to provide users.yaml file.

Refer to following document for details.

User Types

Refer to following document

Development

Swarmpit is written purely in Clojure and utilizes React on front-end. CouchDB is used to persist application data & InfluxDB for cluster statistics.

Everything about building, issue reporting and setting up development environment can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md

Demo

Deploys Swarmpit to play-with-docker sandbox. Please wait few moments till application is up and running before accessing port 888. Initialization might take a few seconds.

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