Using docker swarm to build an application
During my university course of Web and Cloud Computing (WACC) at the RUG university, we were given the task to build a distributed and scalable web application that should be run in a cluster. Since docker is quite a nice environment to run single applications in, we decided to actually run the whole application with all services in a docker swarm environment. As the new docker swarm mode was just around the corner, we started using it and really liked in – also because it synchronized over multiple nodes....