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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

By : Viktor Farcic
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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Viktor Farcic's latest book, The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm, takes you deeper into one of the major subjects of his international best seller, The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit, and shows you how to successfully integrate Docker Swarm into your DevOps toolset. Viktor shares with you his expert knowledge in all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters. You'll go through all the tools required for running a cluster. You'll travel through the whole process with clusters running locally on a laptop. Once you're confident with that outcome, Viktor shows you how to translate your experience to different hosting providers like AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Viktor has updated his DevOps 2.0 framework in this book to use the latest and greatest features and techniques introduced in Docker. We'll go through many practices and even more tools. While there will be a lot of theory, this is a hands-on book. You won't be able to complete it by reading it on the metro on your way to work. You'll have to read this book while in front of the computer and get your hands dirty.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Embracing Destruction: Pets versus Cattle

What now?


Not all stateful services should be treated in the same way. Some might need an external drive mounted, while others already have some kind of a replication and synchronization incorporated. In some cases, you might want to combine both mounting and replication, while in others replication itself is enough.

Please keep in mind that there are many other combinations we did not explore.

The important thing is to understand how a service works and how it was designed to persist its state. In many cases, the logic of the solution is the same no matter whether we use containers or not. Containers often do not make things different, only easier.

With the right approach, there is no reason why stateful services would not be cloud-friendly, fault tolerant, with high availability, scalable, and so on. The major question is whether you want to manage them yourself or you'd prefer leaving it to your cloud computing provider (if you use one). The important thing is that you got a glimpse how...