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Deployment with Docker

By : Srdjan Grubor
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Deployment with Docker

By: Srdjan Grubor

Overview of this book

Deploying Docker into production is considered to be one of the major pain points in developing large-scale infrastructures, and the documentation available online leaves a lot to be desired. With this book, you will learn everything you wanted to know to effectively scale your deployments globally and build a resilient, scalable, and containerized cloud platform for your own use. The book starts by introducing you to the containerization ecosystem with some concrete and easy-to-digest examples; after that, you will delve into examples of launching multiple instances of the same container. From there, you will cover orchestration, multi-node setups, volumes, and almost every relevant component of this new approach to deploying services. Using intertwined approaches, the book will cover battle-tested tooling, or issues likely to be encountered in real-world scenarios, in detail. You will also learn about the other supporting components required for a true PaaS deployment and discover common options to tie the whole infrastructure together. At the end of the book, you learn to build a small, but functional, PaaS (to appreciate the power of the containerized service approach) and continue to explore real-world approaches to implementing even larger global-scale services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Advanced networking


Networking is one of the most important things for Docker clusters and it needs to be kept operational and running smoothly on clusters for the whole system to operate in any capacity. With that in mind, it stands to reason that it behooves us to cover a few of the topics that we have not talked about yet but that are important in most real-world deployments, big and small. There is a big chance you will encounter at least one of these use cases in your own deployments so I would recommend a full read-through, but your mileage may vary.

Static host configuration

In some specific configurations, you may have a host on your network that needs to be mapped or re-mapped to a specific IP address for the container that is trying to reach it. This allows a flexible configuration of named servers and can be a real life-saver for static hosts on the network without a good network DNS server.

To add such a host mapping to a container, you can run the container with docker run --add...