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The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
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The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit and The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to explore two new programs, self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker. The DevOps 2.2 Toolkit: Self-Sufficient Docker Clusters is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book in the series looks at Docker, the tool designed to make it easier in the creation and running of applications using containers. In this latest entry, Viktor combines theory with a hands-on approach to guide you through the process of creating self-adaptive and self-healing systems. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including what exactly self-adaptive and self-healing systems are, how to choose a solution for metrics storage and query, the creation of cluster-wide alerts and what a successful self-sufficient system blueprint looks like. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Alternatives to CloudStor volume driver

If you're not using Docker for AWS or Azure, using CloudStor might not be the best idea. Even though it can be made to work with AWS or Azure without the template we used to create the cluster, it is not well documented. For now, its goal is only to be used with AWS or Azure clusters made with Docker templates. For anything else, I'd recommend you choose one of the alternatives. My personal preference is REX-Ray (http://rexray.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).

All in all, stick with CloudStor if you choose to create your Swarm cluster using Docker For AWS or Azure templates. It is well integrated and provides great out-of-the-box experience. For anything else use REX-Ray if it supports your hosting vendor. Otherwise, look for some other alternative. There are plenty others, and more is yet to come. The most important part of the story...