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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By : Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi
Book Image

Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By: Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi

Overview of this book

Docker Swarm serves as one of the crucial components of the Docker ecosystem and offers a native solution for you to orchestrate containers. It’s turning out to be one of the preferred choices for Docker clustering thanks to its recent improvements. This book covers Swarm, Swarm Mode, and SwarmKit. It gives you a guided tour on how Swarm works and how to work with Swarm. It describes how to set up local test installations and then moves to huge distributed infrastructures. You will be shown how Swarm works internally, what’s new in Swarmkit, how to automate big Swarm deployments, and how to configure and operate a Swarm cluster on the public and private cloud. This book will teach you how to meet the challenge of deploying massive production-ready applications and a huge number of containers on Swarm. You'll also cover advanced topics that include volumes, scheduling, a Libnetwork deep dive, security, and platform scalability.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Native Docker Clustering with Swarm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 10. Swarm and the Cloud

Throughout this book, we worked with Docker Swarm on a set of different underlying technologies without, so far, diving too deep into this implication: We ran Swarm on the top of AWS, DigitalOcean, and on our local workstations. For test and staging purposes, the platform onto which we run Swarm might be of secondary importance (let's fire up some AWS instances with Docker Machine and work that way), but for production it's mandatory to understand the pros and cons, reason, evaluate, and follow the trend.

In this chapter, we're going to review several public and private cloud options and technologies and their possible intersections. We'll finally treat the brand new buzzwords of CaaS (Container as a Service) and IaaC (Infrastructure as a Code) in Chapter 11, What it Next? 

Mainly, we will be looking at:

  • Docker for AWS and Azure

  • Docker Datacenter

  • Swarm on OpenStack