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Deployment with Docker

By : Srdjan Grubor
Book Image

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

Deployments to AWS


With just the bare images and no virtual machines to run them on, our previous Packer work has not gotten us yet fully into an automated working state. To really get there, we will now need to tie everything together with more Ansible glue to complete the deployment. The encapsulation hierarchy of the different stages should conceptually look something like this:

As you can see from the diagram, we will take a layered approach to deployments:

  • In the innermost level, we have the Ansible scripts to take a bare machine, VM, or an AMI to the configuration state we want it to be in.
  • Packer encapsulates that process and produces static AMI images that are further usable on Amazon EC2 cloud offerings.
  • Ansible then finally encapsulates everything mentioned previously by deploying machines with those static, Packer-created images.

The road to automated infrastructure deployment

Now that we know what we want, how can we do it? Luckily for us, as hinted in the previous list, Ansible can...