, to manage a cluster of nodes where your containers can be deployed (regardless of whether you are going to run them on premises or in the cloud). This blog post is part of the blog series,īefore deploying your docker containers to production you most probably need a Instead of traditional local virtual machines. In this blog post i will describe how to setup a local docker swarm cluster for test purposes with a minimal memory usage and fast startup times, using Setting up a docker swarm cluster using docker in docker If you want to learn about how to develop microservices in java or go that can be deployed as docker containers, take a look at the blog series, To quickly and easily setup a local container cluster on our development machines without blowing away the memory. However, i will use container orchestrators to demonstrate other features in docker. they are worth a blog series on their own. not go into details on the inner workings of container orchestrators, such as I will focus on news in the docker engine and surrounding tools, i.e. This blog series is about new features in docker that i learned from visiting the dockercon eu conference in copenhagen, 16-19 october 2017, and in my daily work.