Docker in production

[alainseys3 (alain3888)]

Hy i was wondering wat is the best way to run docker in production.

now we are running hunderds of linux servers on vcenter and we want to port all of the micro application to docker by a docker-compose file.

now is the question wat would be the best setup to run multiple containers.

We cant use the vcenters specialized product for this since our licence does not allow it.

What whould be the best way to keep all the containers managed ?

[supaplex-starwind]

You should definitely ditch VMware out of your environment since it does not make any sense for your use case. Install your favorite Linux distribution directly to your physical servers. Depending on how many physical servers you have and whether you’ve been using VMware vSAN for storage, you may be interested in the following options:

• Harvester HCI https://harvesterhci.io/

• Docker Swarm Swarm mode overview | Docker Docs

• Portainer Cluster https://www.portainer.io/

Those options are free (no licensing), though you still can purchase a commercial support package.

You can replace VMware vSAN with Starwind VSAN VSAN by StarWind: Overview if you need HA/FT distributed storage for your container cluster.

[enyr0py]

We’ve been using Docker Swarm with 3 physical boxes for about 2 years now with no hiccups. Good stuff.