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You're reading from The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm The next level of building reliable and scalable software unleashed

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787289703

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Viktor Farcic

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Continuous Integration with Docker Containers FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up and Operating a Swarm Cluster

3. Docker Swarm Networking and Reverse Proxy

4. Service Discovery inside a Swarm Cluster

5. Continuous Delivery and Deployment with Docker Containers

6. Automating Continuous Deployment Flow with Jenkins

7. Exploring Docker Remote API

8. Using Docker Stack and Compose YAML Files to Deploy Swarm Services

9. Defining Logging Strategy

10. Collecting Metrics and Monitoring the Cluster

11. Embracing Destruction: Pets versus Cattle

What now?

12. Creating and Managing a Docker Swarm Cluster in Amazon Web Services

13. Creating and Managing a Docker Swarm Cluster in DigitalOcean

14. Creating and Managing Stateful Services in a Swarm Cluster

15. Managing Secrets in Docker Swarm Clusters

16. Monitor Your GitHub Repos with Docker and Prometheus

Discussing other logging solutions

Is ELK the solution you should choose for your logging purposes? That a hard question to answer. There are a plethora of similar tools in the market, and it would be close to impossible to give a universal answer. Do you prefer a free solution? If you do, then ELK ( ElasticSearch (https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch), LogStash (https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash), and Kibana (https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana)) is an excellent choice. If you’re looking for an equally cheap (free) alternative, FluentD (http://www.fluentd.org/) is something worth trying out. Many other solutions might fit your needs. A simple Google search will reveal a plethora of options.

Are you more interested in a solution provided as a service? Would you like someone else taking care of your logging infrastructure? If you do, many services offer, for a fee, to host your logs in their database and provide nice interfaces you can use to explore them. I won't list examples...