Summary

This chapter has been incorporated in the book in order to provide all the probing and prescribing details on seamlessly orchestrating multiple containers. We extensively discussed the need for container orchestration and the tools that enable us to simplify and streamline the increasingly complicated process of container orchestration. In order to substantiate how orchestration is handy and helpful in crafting enterprise-class containers, and to illustrate the orchestration process, we took the widely followed route of explaining the whole gamut through a simple example. We developed a web application and contained it within a standard container. Similarly, we took a database container, which is a backend for the frontend web application and the database was executed inside another container. We saw how to make the web application container aware of the database, using different technologies through the container-linkage feature of the Docker engine. We used the open source tool...