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Docker High Performance - Second Edition

By : Allan Espinosa, Russ McKendrick
Book Image

Docker High Performance - Second Edition

By: Allan Espinosa, Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Docker is an enterprise-grade container platform that allows you to build and deploy your apps. Its portable format lets you run your code right from your desktop workstations to popular cloud computing providers. This comprehensive guide will improve your Docker work?ows and ensure your application's production environment runs smoothly. This book starts with a refresher on setting up and running Docker and details the basic setup for creating a Docker Swarm cluster. You will then learn how to automate this cluster by using the Chef server and cookbooks. After that, you will run the Docker monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana, and deploy the ELK stack. You will also learn best practices for optimizing Docker images. After deploying containers with the help of Jenkins, you will then move on to a tutorial on using Apache JMeter to analyze your application's performance. You will learn how to use Docker Swarm and NGINX to load-balance your application, and how common debugging tools in Linux can be used to troubleshoot Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be able to integrate all the optimizations that you have learned and put everything into practice in your applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Other monitoring and logging solutions


There are several other solutions that we can use to monitor and log infrastructure in order to support our Docker-based application. Some of them already have built-in support for monitoring Docker containers. Others should be combined with other solutions, such as the ones we saw previously, because they only focus on a specific part of monitoring or logging.

With other solutions, we may have to use some workarounds; however, their benefits clearly outweigh the compromise we have to make. While the following list is not exhaustive, it shows a few of the stacks we can explore to create our logging and monitoring solutions:

Sometimes, the operations staff and developers running and developing our Docker applications are not yet mature enough or do not want to focus on...