So, what are the tasks that we expect an orchestrator worth its money to execute for us? Let's look at them in detail. The following list shows the most important tasks that, at the time of writing, enterprise users typically expect from their orchestrator.
The tasks of an orchestrator
Reconciling the desired state
When using an orchestrator, you tell it, in a declarative way, how you want it to run a given application or application service. We learned what declarative versus imperative means in Chapter 11, Docker Compose. Part of this declarative way of describing the application service that we want to run includes elements such as which container image to use, how many...