Containers at the Gate: Docker Orchestration at Scale

This blog post discusses how containers, specifically Aerospike, are changing the way applications are architected and deployed. Containers provide encapsulation of dependencies for processes and isolation at runtime, making them a natural fit for microservice-like architectures. Aerospike is well-suited to container deployment due to its shared-nothing architecture, automatic hashing of keys across the cluster, automatic healing of the cluster, automatic discovery of the cluster topology, and automatic replication of data across nodes. The post also covers Docker's Swarm mode for orchestrating multi-container applications and scaling up and down the persistence layer. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy an Aerospike Cluster across multiple Docker hosts using Swarm, Compose, and Multi-host Networking.