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You're reading from Docker Orchestration A concise, fast-paced guide to orchestrating and deploying scalable services with Docker

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787122123

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Arbezzano

Randall Smith

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Docker Orchestration

2. Building Multi-Container Applications with Docker Compose FREE CHAPTER

3. Cluster Building Blocks – Registry, Overlay Networks, and Shared Storage

4. Orchestration with Docker Swarm

5. Deploying and Managing Services with Kubernetes

6. Working with Mesosphere

7. Using Simpler Orchestration Tools – Fleet and Cattle

8. Monitoring Your Cluster

9. Using Continuous Integration to Build, Test, and Deploy Containers

10. Why Stop at Containers? Automating Your Infrastructure

Installing Docker Compose

Once your images are built, you need to tell Docker how to run them. Docker Engine is limited in allowing you to define how containers work together. The Docker project provides a solution called Docker Compose. Docker Compose is a great tool for testing out deployments, defining how containers will interact or what external storage they need, or even as a lightweight orchestration tool.

Installing Docker Compose is easy. For Windows and OS X users, docker-compose installs as part of the Docker Toolbox and Docker for Mac and Windows. For Linux users, docker-compose can be downloaded from the Docker repository on GitHub. The following command from the Docker Compose documentation shows you how:

# curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.8.0  /docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose