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It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
I guess it depends on what "orchestration" means to you... ๐ค
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration_%28computing%29
Docker compose pretty much seems to check every one of these boxes.
Eh fair enough