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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Keeping your data safe in volumes


Adding data directly to the container image works very well for applications that you do not want to change while the applications are running. Your application code usually falls into this category. For tasks that will be updating data regularly, it is better to put the data on a volume. Volumes also provide a measure of data persistence since they stick around even after a container is removed.

Volumes are one of the keys to orchestration. Putting container data in an external volume helps to facilitate container updates and running containers across multiple hosts. Using networked, shared storage is covered in Chapter 3 , Cluster Building Blocks - Registry, Overlay Networks, and Shared Storage.

Let's go back to the web database example. The way it is configured at the beginning of the chapter, the database is created every time the application starts and destroyed when the application stops. That works for an example, but it is not very practical in real...