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Docker Orchestration

By : Randall Smith
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Docker Orchestration

By: Randall Smith

Overview of this book

Docker orchestration is what you need when transitioning from deploying containers individually on a single host to deploying complex multi-container apps on many machines. This book covers the new orchestration features of Docker 1.12 and helps you efficiently build, test, and deploy your application using Docker. You will be shown how to build multi-container applications using Docker Compose. You will also be introduced to the building blocks for multi-host Docker clusters such as registry, overlay networks, and shared storage using practical examples. This book gives an overview of core tools such as Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose which will enhance your orchestration skills. You’ll learn how to set up a swarm using the decentralized building block. Next, you’ll be shown how to make the most out of the in-built orchestration feature of Docker engine and you’ll use third-party tools such as Kubernetes, Mesosphere, and CoreOS to orchestrate your existing process. Finally, you will learn to deploy cluster hosts on cloud services and automate your infrastructure.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Docker Orchestration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Collecting and graphing performance data


Logs are great, but sometimes what is really needed is a summary of system performance. A quick view of performance graphs can often tell an administrator much more than sifting through hundreds or thousands of log entries. A simple question such as "Why is this application slow?" can often require looking at performance data for the disks on the storage nodes, network utilization between each storage node and between the storage and the Docker host, memory and CPU utilization, and host disk performance. That does not even include things such as database speed and application inefficiencies. The good news is that all of this data can be collected and graphed.

Collecting data with collectd

The collectd daemon is a powerful tool that can collect data from many different sources and send the data to a number of databases. Two of those databases are Elasticsearch and InfluxDB. Using Elasticsearch means that the data is available for Kibana to build visualizations...