Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Resource Scheduling

As we know from our experience with Mesos, we can use schedulers such as Marathon, Kubernetes, or Docker Swarm to orchestrate containers that contain services and place them on the nodes in the cluster. Each scheduler has its pros and cons: for example, at the time of writing Swarm does not automatically place containers on a different node if you scale down your cluster. As most schedulers or orchestrators are open-source, we can expect those functionalities to improve over time. Placing containers or services on machines is also often referred to as resource scheduling.