Quick intro to Docker Swarm mode
Docker is cool. It is a great tool to pack your application into set of containers, throw them into the host and they’ll just work. However, …
Tag: virtualization
Building VM image with Packer
Quite often building a VM from scratch is not very wise. Unless server configuration is trivial, its provisioning might take significant amount of time. For example, creating an instance …
How to use Vagrant to create Consul cluster
Last two articles about Consul service discovery involved one simple but extremely boring manual task: creating and configuring a cluster. In fact, I had to …
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 …
Quick intro to Docker
What’s Docker. On the surface Docker looks like another virtual machine (VM). Just pick Ubuntu image with hello-world app inside, type docker run ubuntu hello-world in your terminal of choice, …