With containers gaining the attention of enterprises, the focus is slowly shifting to container orchestration. Complex workloads running in production need mature scheduling, orchestration, scaling and management tools. Docker made it extremely easy to manage the lifecycle of a container running within a host operating system (OS). Since containerized workloads run across multiple hosts, we need tools that go beyond managing a single container and single host.
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This pattern makes deployment challenging. For example, the cache container should be kept close to the web container. When the web tier is scaled out by running additional containers, the cache container also needs to be scaled out. When the request comes to a web container, it checks for the data set within the corresponding cache container; if it is not found, a database query is made to MySQL. This design calls for pairing the web and cache container together and co-locating them within the same host.
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