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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

By : Viktor Farcic
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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Viktor Farcic's latest book, The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, takes you deeper into one of the major subjects of his international best seller, The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit, and shows you how to successfully integrate Docker Swarm into your DevOps toolset. Viktor shares with you his expert knowledge in all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters. You'll go through all the tools required for running a cluster. You'll travel through the whole process with clusters running locally on a laptop. Once you're confident with that outcome, Viktor shows you how to translate your experience to different hosting providers like AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Viktor has updated his DevOps 2.0 framework in this book to use the latest and greatest features and techniques introduced in Docker. We'll go through many practices and even more tools. While there will be a lot of theory, this is a hands-on book. You won't be able to complete it by reading it on the metro on your way to work. You'll have to read this book while in front of the computer and get your hands dirty.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
11
Embracing Destruction: Pets versus Cattle

Do we need service discovery?


It is hard to provide a general recommendation whether service discovery tools are needed when working inside a Swarm cluster. If we look at the need to find services as the main use case for those tools, the answer is usually no. We don't need external service discovery for that. As long as all services that should communicate with each other are inside the same network, all we need is the name of the destination service. For example, for the go-demo (https://github.com/vfarcic/go-demo) service to find the related database, it only needs to know its DNS go-demo-db. The Chapter 3Docker Swarm Networking and Reverse Proxy  proved that proper networking usage is enough for most use cases.

However, finding services and load balancing requests among them is not the only reason for service discovery. We might have other uses for service registries or key-value stores. We might need to store some information such that it is distributed and fault tolerant.

An example...