April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
418 pages
11h 17m
English
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Chapter 10. Containers at Scale
A major strength of containers is their ability to abstract away the underlying hardware and operating system so that your application is not constrained to any particular host or environment. It facilitates scaling a stateless application not just horizontally within your data center but also across cloud providers without many of the traditional barriers you would encounter. True to the shipping container metaphor, a container on one cloud looks like a container on another.
Many organizations find turnkey cloud deployments of Linux containers appealing because they can gain many of the immediate benefits of a scalable container-based platform without needing to completely build something in-house. Even though this is true, the barrier is actually pretty low for building your own platform in the cloud or in your own data center, and we’ll cover some options for doing that shortly.
The major public cloud providers have all worked to support Linux containers natively in their offerings. Some of the largest efforts to support Linux containers in the public cloud include the following:
Many of the same companies also have robust hosted Kubernetes offerings like these:
It’s trivial to install Docker on a Linux instance in one of the public clouds. But getting Docker onto the server ...
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