Using Docker Swarm for self-healing services

Docker Swarm already provides almost everything we need from a system that self-heals services.

What follows is a short demonstration of some of the scenarios the system might encounter when facing failed service replicas. I already warned you that at least basic knowledge of operating Swarm is the pre-requirement for this book so I chose to skip a lengthy discussion about the features behind the scheduler. I won't go into details but only prove that Swarm guarantees that the services will (almost) always be healthy.

Let's see what happens when one of the three replicas of the go-demo_main service fails. We'll simulate it by stopping the primary process inside one of the replicas.

The first thing ...

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