Creating Machines
If we’re going to deploy our application in production, we need to have somewhere to deploy it to. That means, infrastructure: machine instances capable of running code.
As we saw in Chapter 11, The Production Landscape, there are a number of tools available for creating and configuring our infrastructure. However, since this is a book about Docker, we’re going to stick with Docker’s own tool—Docker Machine—for handling this.
Docker Machine is a command-line tool that can create Docker-ready instances for us. It uses the adapter pattern, providing a number of different drivers[113] capable of creating instances on different platforms. This means we can use similar commands to create instances, whether they’re virtual instances ...
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