Chapter 6. Service Chaining and Networking Across Services

This chapter explains the need and mechanism for chaining different services running in a cluster.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to and necessity of service chaining
  • Introduction to Docker networking
  • Service chaining using Flannel/Rudder
  • Service chaining using Weave

In the previous chapter, we discussed in detail how the services running in different CoreOS instances can be discovered from other services. Once the services are discovered, one or more services may need to talk to each other. This chapter explains the need and mechanism for chaining different services running in the CoreOS cluster.

Introduction to and necessity of service chaining

As different services ...

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