With a distributed production container deployment with thousands of containers they need to discover and chat with each other. With Docker, creating a highly decoupled microservice architecture is easier than ever, making service discovery and routing a hot topic. If not executed properly, such a system can easily become a reliability nightmare with your service discovery cluster becoming a single point of failure or a single unreliable service compromising the performance or availability of the entire system. With experience from a Docker deployment of thousands of containers, this talk covers the patterns for success to engineer a distributed and resilient routing and discovery system at scale.
Sam Charrington is an analyst, advisor, consultant, and the principal of CloudPulse Strategies. In his work, Sam covers Cloud computing, PaaS and Big Data. Sam also writes for The New Stack.Sam tweets at @samcharrington... Read More →