Using Consul for Service Discovery
Imagine your distributed app has two kinds of services: web and db. Both of them are replicated for higher availability, live on different hosts, go …
Month: March 2017
Using Consul Key-Value Store for Service Configuration
How do you usually configure an app? Over the decades our industry came up with multiple approaches, like providing command line arguments, various config files, registry settings …
Persistent data in Docker volumes
As Docker containers supposed to be small, single process and easy replaceable instances, it’s not particularly clear how persistent data fits into that picture. Imagine you have …
Multi-host Docker network without Swarm
Docker has several types of networks, but one of them is particularly interesting. Overlay network can span across hosts boundaries, so your web application container …