Introduction to Docker Swarm

Till the last section, we were learning from the developer’s perspective. This section will give you a little exposure to DevOps using Docker.

Setting our expectations

This course focuses on development using Docker. We have covered all the things required from a developer’s perspective. With this, you will be able to develop web apps using Docker easily.

However, you might want to understand a little bit about deployment to know what is going on in your project. So, this section will provide you with a high-level understanding of the swarm architecture to have a conceptual understanding of the production environment that is deployed using the Docker swarm.

So, let’s start.

What is container orchestration?

Suppose you have developed a wonderful application that will be used by millions of users. How will it be deployed efficiently without having a single point failure to handle a large number of requests?

Managing systems at a large scale are very difficult. Millions of containers run on different machines. How ...