In this lesson, we have done the following:
Talked about orchestration and mentioned a few example tools
Discussed clustering and why it's important, especially in production-level setups
Learned about virtual hosts by running Docker Machines on VirtualBox
Walked through Docker Swarm and how to create and manage a cluster of nodes
Introduced example services including Wordpress running on our swarm
Gained a high-level understanding of working with the
docker-machine cli
Talked about load balancing and how Docker Swarm manages this
Congratulations for getting to the finish line! Here's a recap of the knowledge we have gained through the lessons.
In this book, we have covered the following:
Talked about DevOps and how Docker contributes to the workflow
Understood how to template applications on Dockerfiles
Built images and containers and pushed them to Docker Hub
Managed containers through
docker-compose
Learned how we can orchestrate our applications through Docker Swarm