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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By : Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi
Book Image

Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By: Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi

Overview of this book

Docker Swarm serves as one of the crucial components of the Docker ecosystem and offers a native solution for you to orchestrate containers. It’s turning out to be one of the preferred choices for Docker clustering thanks to its recent improvements. This book covers Swarm, Swarm Mode, and SwarmKit. It gives you a guided tour on how Swarm works and how to work with Swarm. It describes how to set up local test installations and then moves to huge distributed infrastructures. You will be shown how Swarm works internally, what’s new in Swarmkit, how to automate big Swarm deployments, and how to configure and operate a Swarm cluster on the public and private cloud. This book will teach you how to meet the challenge of deploying massive production-ready applications and a huge number of containers on Swarm. You'll also cover advanced topics that include volumes, scheduling, a Libnetwork deep dive, security, and platform scalability.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Native Docker Clustering with Swarm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Docker plugins


For a detailed introduction on Docker plugins, we can suggest to read the official documentation pages. Here is a starting point https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/and, also, Docker will probably release a tool to get plugins with a single command, refer to https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/plugin_install/.

We recommend you to refer to Extending Docker book, Packt, if you want to explore how to integrate new features into Docker. The book emphasis is on Docker plugins, volume plugins, network plugins, and how to create your own plugins.

For Flocker, ClusterHQ made available an automated deployment mechanism to deploy a Flocker cluster on AWS with CloudForm templates, which you can install using the Volume Hub. For registering and starting such a cluster, go to https://flocker-docs.clusterhq.com/en/latest/docker-integration/cloudformation.html. For a step-by-step explanation of the detailed procedure, refer to Chapter 3 of Extending Docker, Packt.

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