Docker Management Design Patterns: Swarm Mode on Amazon Web Services

© Deepak Vohra 2017

Deepak Vohra, Docker Management Design Patterns, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2973-6_14

14. Using Swarm Mode in Docker Cloud

Deepak Vohra¹ 

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Docker for AWS is a managed service for Docker Swarm based on a custom Linux distribution, and hosted on AWS with all the benefits inherent with being integrated with the AWS Cloud platform, such as centralized logging with CloudWatch, custom debugging, auto-scaling groups, elastic load balancing, and a DynamoDB database .

The Problem

While AWS is a managed cloud platform, it is not a managed service for Docker containers, images, and services per se. Docker’s builds and tests still need to be integrated.

The Solution

Docker Cloud is a managed service ...