Orchestration is an important topic for the DCA exam. It represents 25% of the questions you have to pass to get this certification. In the second section of the book, we introduced orchestration and we covered Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
Orchestration concepts were covered in Chapter 7, Introduction to Orchestration, Chapter 8, Orchestration Using Docker Swarm, Chapter 9, Orchestration Using Kubernetes, Chapter 10, Introduction to the Docker Enterprise Platform, and Chapter 11, Universal Control Plane.
This is a quick summary of the Docker Swarm features. We recommend you read this summary to remember the concepts we have learned:
- We started talking about multi-container applications before introducing orchestration because it is the first approach to container orchestration. They work locally, using Docker Compose (the docker-compose tool) and application components, and their interaction is described using docker-compose.yml YAML files. Multi-container...