Chapter 8: Clustering with Docker Swarm
In this chapter, we will be taking a look at Docker Swarm. With Docker Swarm, you can create and manage Docker clusters. Swarm can be used to distribute containers across multiple hosts and also has the ability to scale containers.
We will cover the following topics:
- Introducing Docker Swarm
- Creating and managing a swarm
- Docker Swarm services and stacks
- Load balancing, overlays, and scheduling
Technical requirements
As in previous chapters, we will continue to use our local Docker installations. Again, the screenshots in this chapter will be from my preferred operating system, macOS. As before, the Docker commands we will be running will work on all three of the operating systems on which we have installed ...
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