In this chapter, we are going to look into one of our schedulers and look at wrapping some more operational tasks around it. So far, in this book, we have covered more glamorous subjects; however, monitoring, logging, and automated recovery are just as important. We want to take this knowledge and make it work in the real world. From there, we can start to see the benefits to both the development and operations teams. We are going to use Docker Swarm as our scheduler in this chapter. For logging, we will use the ELK stack, and for monitoring, we will use Consul. Since Docker Swarm version 1.1.3, there are some cool features that will help us use recovery, so we will look at them. We will cover the following topics in this chapter: