Building a Containerized Hybrid Cloud

In the last chapter, we saw how to create a hybrid cloud using a Cloud Management Platform (CMP). I am sure you will agree, when I say that it would take a lot of infrastructure plumbing in order to use CMP mode for a cloud bursting use case. 

Infrastructure plumbing implies modification of configuration in various systems in order to enable communication between the application components. 

It is definitely possible with CMP, although difficult, and one may need to integrate some code in order to make it work. 

In the previous chapter, we also briefly touched upon containers while we were installing ManageIQ in a container. The containers are extremely portable and can run in any place the appropriate kernel is present. 

There are two major container engines, Docker and Rocket (from Core OS). For a single container the...