Orchestrating Containers

In the earlier chapters, we laid down a strong foundation on the need for container networking, how to run a service inside a Docker container, and how to expose this service to the outside world by opening up network ports and other prerequisites. However, recently, there are advanced mechanisms being made available and a few third-party orchestration platforms hitting the market for sagaciously establishing dynamic and decisive linkages between distributed and differently-enabled containers in order to compose powerful containers for comprehensively, yet compactly containing process-centric, multi-tiered, and enterprise-class distributed applications. In the extremely diversified yet connected world, the concept of orchestration cannot be kept away from the deserved prominence for long. This chapter is precisely allocated for explaining the nitty-gritty of container orchestration, and...