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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm
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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

by Chanwit Kaewkasi, Fabrizio Soppelsa
December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
5h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Real world use case examples

Docker Swarm is the choice of several projects, for example:

  • Rackspace Carina is built atop Docker Swarm: Rackspace offers hosted container environment, which is internally based on Docker Swarm
  • Zenly is using Swarm across Google Cloud Platform and bare metal servers
  • ADP uses Docker and Swarm to give velocity to their legacy deployments
  • Swarms can be deployed with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure templates directly on their public clouds

Pet versus cattle models

There are two opposite approaches when creating and utilizing infrastructures: pet versus cattle.

In the pet model, the administrator deploys servers or virtual machines or, in our case, containers and takes care of them. She or he logs in, installs software, configures ...

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