May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
9h 44m
English
Docker Machine is the weakest solution we explored. It is based on ad-hoc commands and provides little more than a way to create an EC2 instance and install Docker Engine. It uses Ubuntu 15.10 as the base AMI. Not only that it is old but is a temporary release. If we choose to use Ubuntu, the correct choice is 16.04 Long Term Support (LTS).
Moreover, Docker Machine still does not support Swarm Mode so we need to manually open the port before executing docker swarm init and docker swarm join commands. To do that, we need to combine Docker Machine with AWS Console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.
If Docker Machine would, at least, provide the minimum setup for Swarm Mode (as it did with the old Standalone ...
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