Chapter 7. Managing Containers on Your Cloud

In this chapter, we will cover one of the currently most discussed technology approaches, containers. The popularity around containers continues to build and rightfully so, who does not want an easier method of deploying applications and a consolidated approach to consuming computing resources? The best analogy I like to use, outside of the obvious shipping container on a ship analogy, when talking about containers is imagine putting all your code into a car or SUV. Then a vehicle carrier shows up at your door to pick up your vehicle. The maintenance for your vehicle will be minimal to none since the vehicle carrier is doing all the work. You only need to worry about making sure the vehicle carrier is working. This is the principle behind containers, we will go deeper into the container concept and also learn how you can leverage OpenStack and/or Ansible to build and deploy them. As in our usual fashion, as we go through each section we will be...