Containers provide users with an easy way to package and run their applications. Packaging involves defining the library and tools that are necessary for a user's application to run. These packages, once converted to images, can be used to create and run containers. These containers can be run anywhere, whether it's on developer laptops, QA systems, or production machines, without any change in environment. Docker and other container runtime tools provide the facility to manage the life cycle of such containers.
Using these tools, users can build and manage images, run containers, delete containers, and perform other container life cycle operations. But these tools can only manage one container on a single host. When we deploy our application on multiple containers and multiple hosts, we need some kind of automation tool. This type of automation is generally called orchestration. Orchestration tools provide a number of features, including:
- Provisioning and managing hosts...