Monthly Archives: September 2016

Service Discovery Inside A Docker Swarm Cluster

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The text that follows contains excerpts from the Service Discovery Inside A Swarm Cluster chapter of the The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm book.

Service Discovery In The Swarm Cluster

The old (standalone) Swarm required a service registry so that all its managers can have the same view of the cluster state. When instantiating the old Swarm nodes, we had to specify the address of a service registry. However, if you take a look at setup instructions of the new Swarm (Swarm Mode introduced in Docker 1.12), you’ll notice that we nothing is required beyond Docker Engines. You will not find any mention of an external service registry or a key-value store.
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The DevOps Toolkit Series Are Born

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The DevOps 2.1 ToolkitAt the beginning of 2016, I published The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. It took me a long time to finish it. Much longer than I imagined.

I started by writing blog posts in TechnologyConversations.com. They become popular and I received a lot of feedback. Through them, I clarified the idea behind the book. The goal was to provide a guide for those who want to implement DevOps practices and tools. At the same time, I did not want to write a material usable to any situation. I wanted to concentrate only on people that truly want to implement the latest and greatest practices. I hoped to make it go beyond the “traditional” DevOps. I wished to show that the DevOps movement matured and evolved over the years and that we needed a new name. A reset from the way DevOps is implemented in some organizations. Hence the name, The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit.
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