Cloud Computing: Docker Launches New Orchestration Tools

February 26, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Dan Kobialka.

Docker is expanding its "batteries included but swappable" open source ecosystem to empower developers and system administrators to launch and manage portable distributed applications.

The San Francisco-based open source platform provider has released three new orchestration tools that are designed to help developers and system administrators create Dockerized apps…

Docker’s new orchestration tools include:

  • Compose — Allows users to define all of an application’s components in a single file and "spin everything up with a single command that does everything that needs to be done" to get the app running.
  • Machine — Lets users deploy Docker Engines on their computers, on cloud providers and in their own data centers.
  • Swarm — Blends several Docker Engines into a single, virtual host…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-and-open-source/02262015/docker-launches-new-orchestration-tools