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Orchestration

Orchestration

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Orchestration

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- [Instructor] When we move containers into production, we quickly run into a requirement for what's known as orchestration. For a standalone development environment, it's fairly straight forward using a tool like Docker to start up a container and start working on it. That approach can even work to a limited extent in production systems, but it's not really using containers to their full potential. If you're currently using containers this way or considering it, please don't misunderstand my point. It's okay to use containers this way. In fact, if you're containerizing an existing complex stack, splitting functions into containers, but keeping them on the same machine can be a great transitional state. Fully containerized application stacks are much simpler to split out piece by piece into an orchestration system. So what does orchestration actually mean? The fundamental task of a container orchestrator is to…

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