Cluster management solutions
There are many cluster management software tools available. It is unfair to do an apple-to-apple comparison between them. Even though there are no one-to-one components, there are many areas of overlap in capabilities between them. In many situations, organizations use a combination of one or more of these tools to fulfill their requirements.
The following diagram shows the position of cluster management tools from the microservices context:
In this section, we will explore some of the popular cluster management solutions available on the market.
Docker Swarm
Docker Swarm is Docker's native cluster management solution. Swarm provides a native and deeper integration with Docker and exposes APIs that are compatible with Docker's remote APIs. Docker Swarm logically groups a pool of Docker hosts and manages them as a single large Docker virtual host. Instead of application administrators and developers deciding on which host the container is to be deployed...
