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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122123
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Randall Smith Randall Smith
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Gianluca Arbezzano Gianluca Arbezzano
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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

Automating host deployment

There are many ways to automate the deployment of Docker hosts. The specifics, as always, depend on the orchestration system. For example, adding new hosts to a Docker Swarm cluster running on Amazon EC2 is as easy as running something like the following:

$ docker-machine create --driver amazonec2
$ docker swarm join --token ABC... manager

For Azure or GCE, it would be the same. Simply replace the driver and pass the appropriate driver specific flags to docker-machine.

This section will look at a couple of different tools that can be used to manage the hosts for a Docker cluster. The first is Terraform which works with just about everything. Next is Docker's own cloud management tool, Docker Cloud. Finally, it will introduce two tools which are in public beta, Docker for AWS and Docker for Azure.

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If you plan on running on AWS, GCE, or Azure, consider using the container hosting services that each of them offers. With each service, the tasks of creating and...

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