Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)
by Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, Daniel Fernandez
Orchestration
In the context of infrastructure and systems management, orchestration is a fairly general term that is often used to refer to cluster management, scheduling of compute tasks, and the provisioning and de-provisioning of host machines. It includes automating resource allocation and distribution, with the goal of optimizing the process of building, deploying, and destroying computing tasks. In this case, the tasks we’re referring to are microservices, such as those deployed in Docker containers.
In this context orchestration consists of provisioning nodes, cluster management, and container scheduling.
Provisioning is the process of bringing new nodes online and getting them ready to perform work. In addition to creating the virtual ...
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