If you’re deploying containers at very large scale, there’s a very good chance that you use a variety of automation tools simultaneously. Docker has its own, naturally, and its scripts are almost delightfully straightforward and easy for the mind to digest. But it doesn’t really matter how simple the composition may be; if you’re using two or more conductors, you may get into more trouble orchestrating the conductors than the workloads.
Last March, we asked developers for information about the way containers are being managed and orchestrated within their organizations. We gave them a list of five methods of orchestration and asked them to choose any and all that apply. Some 21 percent of respondents who use containerization in the development stage, but not in production, said they use shell scripts and customizations for the purposes of integrating multiple tools. Maybe coincidentally but maybe not, another 21 percent of respondents said they use configuration management (CM) tools, such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet.
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