Competitive container orchestration mechanism
In this section, we are going to see the other container orchestration mechanism currently available in the market. Some of these orchestration mechanisms can in fact be complementary to the CoreOS orchestration mechanism. As we have already seen in Chapter 3, Creating Your CoreOS Cluster and Managing the Cluster, fleet acts as a cluster manager in CoreOS and instantiates the docker units/service in any one of the nodes in the cluster. Let us discuss the other orchestration mechanisms in detail in this chapter. Some of the key container orchestration mechanisms currently available are as follows:
Kubernetes
Apache Mesos
Swarm
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration infrastructure developed by Google for deploying containers or a group of containers in a server cluster. Kubernetes provides a way of deploying a group of containers as a single logical service. This group of containers has been termed pod. Apart from providing...