Chapter 6. Deploy Real Applications on Swarm

With a Swarm infrastructure we can put up various types of load to deploy. We'll work on the application stack in this and the next chapter. In this chapter we'll:

  • Discover Swarm's services and tasks
  • Deploy Nginx containers
  • Deploy a complete WordPress
  • Deploy a tiny scale Apache Spark architecture.

Microservices

The IT industry has always been keen on decoupling and reusing its creations, either source code or applications. Modeling applications at the architectural level is not an exception. Modularization was earlier called service-oriented architecture (SOA) and was kept glued by open source protocols based on XML. However, with the advent of containers, everyone is now speaking of micro services.

Micro ...

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