Throughout the book, we were working with containers; we already told you how beneficial they are for your projects. Now, it's time to deploy your application to the Cloud. There are different providers out there, and we gave you some hints on how to choose the best provider for your project. In this section, we will show you some interesting options you have to orchestrate and manage your containers in production.
We were playing with Docker and their Docker Engine throughout the book. With the Docker engine, we are able to spin up and down the containers we use in our application. As you imagine, you can install the Docker Engine in your production server and use it like our development environment, but do you think that this approach is fault tolerant? Obviously the response is no. You can try to do some magic having multiple Docker Engines in different servers, but it will be hard to set up and maintain. Fortunately, Docker created Docker...