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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

Configuration management


With every system that depends on a large number of similarly configured machines (regardless of whether they are physical or virtual ones), there always arises a need for simple and easy rebuild tooling to help automate the majority of the tasks that have in the past been done by hand. In the case of PaaS clusters, ideally, all pieces of the infrastructure are capable of being rebuilt with minimal user intervention into the exact state that is wanted. In the case of bare-metal PaaS server nodes, this is critically important as any operation that you have to do manually gets multiplied by the number of nodes you have, so streamlining this process should be of utmost importance for any kind of production-ready clustering infrastructure.

Now you may ask yourself, "Why do we care about covering CM tooling?" and the truth of the matter is that if you do not have proper CM around your container infrastructure, you are guaranteeing yourself after-hour emergency calls due...