In the first post of this series, we examined how Linux container technology, like Docker, can be used to streamline software development and testing. The lightweight portability of Docker containers makes it very easy to deploy code in a way that minimizes the issues that arise due to slight differences between development, test, stage, and production environments. In the second post, we illustrated how the characteristics of Docker-based application development and deployment mesh very nicely with the modern, distributed systems architecture known as “microservices.” We also briefly touched upon the need to deploy container-based architectures using some sort of container framework. As the number of containers grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage manually, and this is where services like the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) can really help
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
