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AMBER ANKERHOLZ | APRIL 12, 2016

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Some container orchestration tools to know about include:

Amazon ECS -- The Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)

supports Docker containers and lets you run applications on Country

a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

Azure Container Service (ACS) -- ACS lets you create a

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Docker Swarm -- Docker Swarm provides native clustering
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Google Container Engine -- Google Container Engine,

which is built on Kubernetes, lets you run Docker containers
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the cluster and manages them based on user-defined
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Kubernetes -- Kubernetes is an orchestration system for

Docker containers. It handles scheduling and manages
workloads based on user-defined parameters.

Mesosphere Marathon -- Marathon is a container

orchestration framework for Apache Mesos that is designed
to launch long-running applications. It offers key features
for running applications in a clustered environment.

Additionally, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

(CNCF) is focused on integrating the orchestration layer of
the container ecosystem. The CNCF’s stated goal is to create
and drive adoption of a new set of common container
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RICHARDROBBINS | FEBRUARY 16, 2017 Permalink

Nanobox is a startup software company that has

created a container orchestration platform on
top of Docker, making Docker much more
accessible for developers and devops.

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GOCHIBA | MAY 27, 2016 Permalink

Hi, thanks to share great article, but you missed

rancher(http://rancher.com) and that should
adding to these major orchestrator tools.

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LIRANTAL | MAY 13, 2016 Permalink

Another Docker orchestration tool which is open

source is called CloudSlan, from the great team

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at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise: http://cloudslang.io

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LIBBYCLARK | MAY 17, 2016 Permalink

Great, thanks for sharing! 

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SAMUELBROWN | APRIL 25, 2016 Permalink

Is the 'Open Source' in your title an accidental

inclusion?  I don't believe ECS, ACS or Google
Container Engine are open source.

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AANKERHOLZ | APRIL 27, 2016 Permalink

Yes, that was mistakenly added. Thanks for

bringing it to my attention. 

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NEVALLA | APRIL 20, 2016 Permalink

You can also check Kontena. It's

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the container platform built to maximize
developer happiness. It works on any cloud, easy
to setup, simple to use. Kontena was selected
Black Duck Open Source Rookie 2015.

All the source code is available

at https://github.com/kontena/kontena

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ALEZZANDRO | APRIL 18, 2016 Permalink

What about OpenShift?

It's a little bit weird you forgot to mention it:

https://www.openshift.com/

There is also a planned integration between

Google and Red Hat:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/01/google-
and-red-hat-integrate-openshift-dedicated.html

Regards.

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AANKERHOLZ | MAY 23, 2016 Permalink

Thanks for your note. OpenShift is important

here, and there is a lot of overlap in these
tools. For the purposes of the course,

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OpenShift is considered more as a PaaS.

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