September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 18m
English
Content preview from Docker: Up & Running, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 10. Docker at Scale
One of Docker’s major strengths is its 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 Docker 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 biggest efforts to implement Docker containers in the public cloud include:
Even cloud providers running on non-Linux operating systems like SmartOS and Windows are actively supporting the Docker ecosystem:
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Azure Container Service (Azure supports both Windows and Linux operating systems)
It’s trivial to install Docker on a Linux instance ...
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