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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

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
11
Embracing Destruction: Pets versus Cattle

Creating a reverse proxy service in charge of routing requests depending on their base URLs


We can implement a reverse proxy in a couple of ways. One would be to create a new image based on HAProxy (https://hub.docker.com/_/haproxy/) and include configuration files inside it. That approach would be a good one if the number of different services is relatively static. Otherwise, we'd need to create a new image with a new configuration every time there is a new service (not a new release). The second approach would be to expose a volume. That way, when needed, we could modify the configuration file instead building a whole new image. However, that has downsides as well. When Deploying to a cluster, we should avoid using volumes whenever they're not necessary. As you'll see soon, a proxy is one of those that do not require a volume. As a side note, --volume has been replaced with the docker service argument --mount.

The third option is to use one of the proxies designed to work with Docker Swarm...