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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)

What now?

We have a self-sufficient system! It can self-heal and self-adapt. It can work without any humans around. We built Matrix! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/) We'll... We're not quite there yet. You will have to observe metrics, look for patterns, create new alerts, and so on. You will have to be behind the system we built so far and continue perfecting it. What we have, for now, is a solid base that you will need to expand. You'll have to use the knowledge you got so far and adapt the examples to suit your own needs.

There are many other combinations and formulas you might want to define as alerts. You might want to perform some actions when CPU usage is too high or when a disk is almost full. I'll leave that to you with a word of caution. Don't go crazy. Don't create too many alerts. Don't saturate humans with notifications and...