Quick Recap

Key points

What you’ve learned in this chapter:

1. Orchestration on production servers.
2. Using Docker Swarm to scale an application.
3. Hosts that offer container orchestration services.

Suggestion

It doesn’t matter what host OS you’re using. Docker containers run natively on Linux. Even Windows and macOS run Docker containers inside Linux.

It is, therefore, more efficient to run Docker on Linux but this rarely matters on a development PC. Use whatever OS and tools you prefer.

However, if you are using Docker to deploy your application, Linux is the best choice for your live server.