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Learning Docker

You're reading from   Learning Docker Build, ship, and scale faster

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786462923
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jeeva S. Chelladhurai Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
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Pethuru Raj Pethuru Raj
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Vinod Singh Vinod Singh
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Docker 2. Handling Docker Containers FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Images 4. Publishing Images 5. Running Your Private Docker Infrastructure 6. Running Services in a Container 7. Sharing Data with Containers 8. Orchestrating Containers 9. Testing with Docker 10. Debugging Containers 11. Securing Docker Containers 12. The Docker Platform – Distinct Capabilities and Use Cases

Load balancing consideration

In the enterprise deployments of Docker Registry, the load balancer is required to distribute loads across registry clusters. To make load balancer work correctly, we need to consider storage driver, HTTP secret, and Redis cache (if configured) to be same for the cluster of registries. If any of these parameters are different, the registry will have trouble serving the requests.

For example, the storage driver used for Docker images should be the same across all instances of registry. If a particular mount point is used as a filesystem, it should be accessible and attached to all instances of registries. Similarly, if an S3 or IBM object storage is used, registries should be able to access the same storage resource. The HTTP secret coordinates uploads also must be the same across instances. Actually, configuring different Redis cache for different registry instances may work as of...

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