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Deployment with Docker

By : Srdjan Grubor
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Deployment with Docker

By: Srdjan Grubor

Overview of this book

Deploying Docker into production is considered to be one of the major pain points in developing large-scale infrastructures, and the documentation available online leaves a lot to be desired. With this book, you will learn everything you wanted to know to effectively scale your deployments globally and build a resilient, scalable, and containerized cloud platform for your own use. The book starts by introducing you to the containerization ecosystem with some concrete and easy-to-digest examples; after that, you will delve into examples of launching multiple instances of the same container. From there, you will cover orchestration, multi-node setups, volumes, and almost every relevant component of this new approach to deploying services. Using intertwined approaches, the book will cover battle-tested tooling, or issues likely to be encountered in real-world scenarios, in detail. You will also learn about the other supporting components required for a true PaaS deployment and discover common options to tie the whole infrastructure together. At the end of the book, you learn to build a small, but functional, PaaS (to appreciate the power of the containerized service approach) and continue to explore real-world approaches to implementing even larger global-scale services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Service discovery


Before we get any further, we really need to get deeply familiar with the conceptual Docker container connectivity, which is, unsurprisingly, in some ways very similar to building high-availability services with servers in a non-containerized world. Because of this, covering this topic in some depth will not only expand your understanding of Docker networking, but also help in generally building out resilient services.

A recap of Docker networking

In the previous chapter, we covered a bit of the Docker networking layout, so we will cover the main points here:

  • By default, Docker containers run on an isolated virtual network on the host
  • Each container has its own network address in that network
  • By default, localhost for a container is not the host machine's localhost
  • There is high overhead of manual work in order to connect containers manually
  • Manual networking connections between containers are inherently fragile

In the parallel world of setting up a local server network, the base...