Scaling Docker #5 - Routing DNS to Docker images running on a CoreOS Cluster

Our last piece of the Docker puzzle - we need to dynamically direct DNS to our Docker load balancers! Once this is all up and running, it’s so stinking fun to deploy and scale entirely new applications onto our infrastructure with just a few commands! VIDEO 1: - Cluster computing - CoreOS is our solution here. CoreOS allows us to make an expandable cluster of computers so we can add more computers should our application need more power to scale. CoreOS also allows us to run services on any machine in the cluster and they can all communicate with each other. VIDEO 2: - Scheduling: we shouldn’t manually choose which app runs on which machine - this idea doesn’t work at scale. Fleet will be our scheduler that decides where our apps/services run. If a CoreOS machine goes down, fleet will reschedule any services that it was running onto a new machine. VIDEO 3: - Service Registration Since we never know what ip address o