SkillsCast

Orchestrating storage for a Docker microservices stack

docker microservices devops orchestration-platform kubernetes mesos docker-swarm dataops containers cloud

1st July 2015 in London

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Microservice architecture is becoming a very popular way to design your application. Generally, these systems will run many containers across many physical machines. To manage this complexity, the term "orchestration" has been applied to the system that schedules containers onto machines. Tools like Kubernetes, Mesosphere and Docker Swarm are 3 of the orchestration platforms that modern, Docker based stacks can use to do this. These tools will constantly make scheduling decisions that may result in moving a container from one machine to another. There is a bit of the picture missing - what happens when a container writes some state to disk? Now the orchestration platform cannot move that container from one host to another because the data will be left behind. This is the problem that Flocker aims to solve and in this talk I will discuss how Flocker does this and what it means for being able to deploy stateful containers using orchestration frameworks.

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