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Docker Orchestration

You're reading from Docker Orchestration A concise, fast-paced guide to orchestrating and deploying scalable services with Docker

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787122123

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Arbezzano

Randall Smith

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Docker Orchestration

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Docker Orchestration FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Multi-Container Applications with Docker Compose

3. Cluster Building Blocks – Registry, Overlay Networks, and Shared Storage

4. Orchestration with Docker Swarm

5. Deploying and Managing Services with Kubernetes

6. Working with Mesosphere

7. Using Simpler Orchestration Tools – Fleet and Cattle

8. Monitoring Your Cluster

9. Using Continuous Integration to Build, Test, and Deploy Containers

10. Why Stop at Containers? Automating Your Infrastructure

Summary

In this chapter, you have seen how to use Docker Swarm to orchestrate a Docker cluster. The same tools that are used with a single node can be used with a swarm. Additional tools available through swarm, allow for easy scale out of services and rolling updates with little to no downtime. In the next chapter, you will look at how to use Kubernetes to orchestrate your cluster.

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Authors (2)

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Randall Smith

Randall Smith

Randall Smith is a senior systems administrator at Adams State University. He has been administering Windows, Linux, and BSD systems since 1999. He has been active in helping other sysadmins solve problems online and off. He has presented at the Colorado Higher Ed Computing Organization and Educause conferences on topics including Linux KVM and Ceph. In his spare time, Randall streams Let's Play gaming videos at Music Free Gaming on YouTube and Twitch.

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