Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

I am Philip—an engineer working at Distr, which helps software and AI companies distribute their applications to self-managed environments. Our Open Source Software Distribution platform is available on GitHub ( github.com/distr-sh/distr ) and orchestrates both Docker Compose and Docker Swarm deployments on customer hosts every day. Most of the production incidents I have seen on Docker Compose hosts come from the same handful of quirks: an old container that should have been removed, a disk tha