Docker orchestration: clustering, scheduling, and management

Clustering

Clustering groups hosts (VMs or bare metal) into a shared network and treats the group as one resource instead of separate machines.

Orchestration

Orchestration coordinates the whole system: place containers on the right hosts, wire them together, scale, recover from failures, and rebalance load.

Management

Management covers observability, control, and day-to-day admin tasks across the cluster.

Orchestration and clustering tools

• Swarm — Docker’s native swarm mode
• Fleet
• Kubernetes
• Mesos

Container management platforms

• Rancher
• Clocker
• Tutum

Related topics

• Service discovery — find running services
• Swarm — services, tasks, and TLS