So far in our Docker Enterprise adoption journey, we have been working with our non-production Docker Enterprise cluster. Now it's time to build out a Docker Enterprise production cluster, factoring in everything we have learned from our pilot experience along with current corporate security standards/polices and the topics covered in this chapter.
Having internally released our pilot application, we have gotten familiar with the many capabilities and challenges of container-based application deployment and operations. Our thoughts tend to shift toward topics such as container-based application data management (backing up or migrating the app data), application updates, Docker software updates, and host-node OS updates. Now we are going to add a production cluster into this mix. How will this all work?