<p>By creating Service accounts for pods, it is possible to access the kubectl api's of the whole cluster from any pod. Kubernetes-client libraries implemented in different languages make it possible to have a pod in cluster that serves this purpose. </p>

<p>Does docker-compose have something similar to this? My requirement is to control the life cycle(create, list, scale, destroy, restart, etc) of all the services defined in a compose file. As far as I've searched, no such feature is available for compose.</p>

<p>Or does docker-swarm provide any such features?</p>

Pravin Kumar
<p>Docker provides an API which can be used to interact with the daemon. In fact that is exactly what docker-compose is using to achieve the functionality provided.</p>

<p>Docker does not provide fine grained access control like kubernetes does, though. But you can mount the docker socket to a container and make use of the API. A good example or that is ‚portainer‘ which provides a web based UI for docker.</p>
