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Service Discovery and Load balancing Internals in Docker 1.12

Docker 1.12 release has revamped its support for Service Discovery and Load balancing. Prior to 1.12 release, support for Service discovery and Load balancing was pretty primitive in Docker. In this blog, I have covered the internals of Service Discovery and Load balancing in Docker release 1.12. I will cover DNS based load balancing, VIP … Continue reading Service Discovery and Load balancing Internals in Docker 1.12

Comparing Swarm, Swarmkit and Swarm Mode

One of the big features in Docker 1.12 release is Swarm mode. Docker had Swarm available for Container orchestration from 1.6 release. Docker released Swarmkit as an opensource project for orchestrating distributed systems few weeks before Docker 1.12(RC) release. I had some confusion between these three projects. In this blog, I have tried to put … Continue reading Comparing Swarm, Swarmkit and Swarm Mode

Experimental Docker with Docker machine

Docker Experimental channel is used to release experimental Docker features so that Docker users can try the new features and provide feedback.  It is nice to use the experimental Docker in a test environment rather than upgrading Docker in the main development machine. The preferred approach is to use docker-machine and create a VM with experimental Docker. … Continue reading Experimental Docker with Docker machine

Contiv Networking policy Hands-on

Contiv is an Open source project driven primarily by Cisco for policy based networking, storage and cluster management for containerized applications. In this blog, I will cover some of the hands-on stuff that I tried with Contiv Networking. I used the sample examples provided in Contiv documentation as starting point. For Contiv networking basics, you can refer … Continue reading Contiv Networking policy Hands-on

Contiv – Policy based networking for Containers

Contiv is an Open source project driven primarily by Cisco for policy based networking, storage and cluster management for containerized applications. In this blog, I will focus on how Contiv does policy based Container networking. In the next blog, I will cover some hands-on stuff that I tried with Contiv. Container Policy Policies have become critical … Continue reading Contiv – Policy based networking for Containers

Openstack Deployment using Containers

I recently saw the Openstack self-healing demo from CoreOS team using Tectonic(Stackanetes project) and I kind of felt that the boundary between Containers and VMs are blurring. In this blog, I discuss the usecase of deploying Openstack using Containers. We typically think of Openstack as a VM Orchestration tool. Openstack is composed of numerous services … Continue reading Openstack Deployment using Containers