CaaS with Docker EE
Docker EE is the commercial edition from Docker, Inc. and the standard and advanced options come with the management suite called Docker Datacenter (DDC). DDC is Docker's CaaS platform and makes full use of Docker to provide a single pane of glass to manage any number of containers running on any number of hosts.
DDC is an enterprise-grade product that you run on a cluster of machines in your data center or in the cloud. The clustering functionality uses Docker swarm mode, so in production, you could have a 100-node cluster using the exact same application platform as your development laptop running as a single-node swarm.
There are two parts to DDC. There's the Docker Trusted Registry (DTR), which is like running your own private instance of Docker Hub, complete with image signing and security scanning. I'll cover DTR in Chapter 9, Understanding the Security Risks and Benefits of Docker, when I look at security in Docker. The administration component is called UCP, and...