We recently Dockerized the main part of our event processing pipeline using the 1.12-rc4 release. It’s been awesome using Docker in Swarm mode, and we’ve been really impressed with the ease of setup and use of Swarm mode. Our event pipeline processes around 220 million application errors per day, approximately 150k per minute, and performs a massive variety of processing tasks — it’s a critical piece of our infrastructure.
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Here you can see how we’ve chosen to label our Docker nodes:
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Here are some of the things we still need to figure out that would help improve our experience with Docker Swarm mode. If you have an answer or can point us in the right direction, please send us a Tweet.
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The main benefits of Docker Swarm mode is the ease of cluster setup and the ease at which we were able to make changes to the entire stack of our event processing pipeline codebase. We are planning to launch more of our services on Docker Swarm mode very soon.
We hope that our story and the lessons we learned from using Docker Swarm mode in production is helpful to you, whether you’re just considering running it or are already running it and may have run into similar problems.
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