Chapter 1. Introduction to the CoreOS family
This chapter covers
- Overview of CoreOS systems and concepts
- Understanding common workflow patterns for CoreOS
- Introducing fleet and etcd, and systemd units
Suppose you’ve been hired by a new company that wants you to build out a modern infrastructure and operational architecture for its developers. The company has a wide range of application stacks, and you have strong requirements around horizontal scalability and high availability. You know you want Linux, but the idea of maintaining endless operating system updates and changes or setting up complex configuration-management systems is unappealing. You recognize that containerization can make this far easier—you can separate the operational ...
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