Container Orchestration
Docker has changed the Ops landscape in two key ways. Firstly, its built-in delivery mechanism—the ability to push images to a Docker Registry and pull them down as needed—solves a common question: how do I get my software onto the target machine? Secondly, containers let us treat hugely disparate software in essentially the same way; we use the same mechanism to start, stop, and restart containers, whatever they happen to be running.
This standardization, both in terms of delivery mechanism and how we manage software, reshapes the way we think of operations. The focus shifts to how we configure, run, and update the multiple containers that make up an application in concert, a process known as (container) orchestration ...
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