Summary
In this chapter, we talked about different types of server and also discussed how your containerized applications can fit into each of the categories. We have also installed VirtualBox and used Vagrant to launch either a CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 virtual server, with docker
and docker-compose
installed.
Our new virtual server environment will be used throughout the upcoming chapters to test the various different types of monitoring. In the next chapter, we will start our journey by using Docker's in-built functionality to explore metrics about our running containers.