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Learning Docker

By : Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Vinod Singh, Vinod kumar Singh, Jeeva Chelladhurai, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Book Image

Learning Docker

By: Pethuru Raj, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Vinod Singh, Vinod kumar Singh, Jeeva Chelladhurai, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Docker
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Orchestrating Containers

In the earlier chapters, we laid down a strong foundation for the need for container networking, how to run a service inside a Docker container, and how to expose this service to the outside world by opening up network ports and other prerequisites. However, recently, there are advanced mechanisms being made available and a few third-party orchestration platforms hitting the market for sagaciously establishing dynamic and decisive linkages between distributed and differently enabled containers in order to compose powerful containers for comprehensively, yet compactly containing process-centric, multi-tiered, and enterprise-class distributed applications. In this extremely diversified yet connected world, the concept of orchestration cannot be kept away from its deserved prominence for long. This chapter is precisely devoted for explaining the nitty-gritty of container orchestration, and its direct role in picking up discrete containers to systematically...