Security, deployment, and updates for thousands of nodes prove challenging in practice, but with CoreOS and Kubernetes, you can orchestrate container-based web applications in large landscapes.
Since the release of Docker [1] three years ago, containers have not only been a perennial favorite in the Linux universe, but native ports for Windows and OS X also garner great interest. Where developers were initially only interested in testing their applications in containers as microservices [2], market players now have initial production experience with the use of containers in large setups – beyond Google and other major portals.
In this article, I look at how containers behave in large herds, what advantages arise from this, and what you need to watch out for.
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