© Deepak Vohra 2017

Deepak Vohra, Docker Management Design Patterns, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2973-6_13

13. Developing a Highly Available Website

Deepak Vohra

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

High availability of a website refers to a website being available continuously without service interruption. A website is made highly available by provisioning fault tolerance into the Docker Swarm application. High availability is provided at various levels. The ingress load balancer balances incoming client requests across the multiple service tasks and provides fault tolerance at the tasks level. If one service task fails, client traffic is routed to another service task. Using an external load balancer for a Docker Swarm hosted across ...

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