January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 8m
English
One of the biggest challenges with running a Docker cluster is figuring out what to do with the data. Docker supports using volumes to store data. By default, the volumes store data on the Docker host. What happens if that container is started on another host? None of the data is available. For most applications, this is a problem.
Docker solved this problem by creating a pluggable storage system. Volumes can be created that connect to a wide variety of storage systems. Those systems can be anything from traditional network storage such as a Network File System (NFS) and Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) to cloud services such as Amazon S3 or clustered storage systems such as Gluster ...
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