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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

Chapter 9. Exploring the Largest-Scale Deployments

In earlier chapters, we covered many different aspects of deploying Docker containers, but if we are to turn our examples into a global service that would withstand the throughput of many millions of requests a second, a few things will still need to be addressed and this chapter was specifically written to go over the most important ones in some detail. Since implementations of topics covered here would involve enough material to be books on their own and infrastructure would differ wildly depending on a multitude of factors, the text here will be mostly on the theory side, but the previous understanding of services we gained in the text leading up to this chapter should be good enough to give you ideas on how you can proceed with the least amount of pain.

In its core, the topics we will cover revolve around choosing the right technologies and then following three basic ideas:

  • Automate everything!
  • Really, automate it all!
  • Yes, automate even...