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Clusters, nodes, services, and stacks

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Clusters, nodes, services, and stacks

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- [Instructor] Before we jump into Containers on Windows, there are a few terms that you still should know about how production clusters work with Windows containers. Those terms are clusters, nodes, services, and stacks. So, let's start off with clusters. A cluster is a group of container hosts all running Docker, and all joined together. If you start off with a single host, like we'll be installing first, and that host could be running a number of different Containers, and then you add multiple hosts from there. And then when those hosts are joined together, this is called a cluster in Docker. And it could be a production cluster, development, test, whatever it might be. When running containers with Docker, commonly, hosts are called nodes. So, after joining a cluster, that host is then commonly referred to as a node. So, each one of the nodes are joined together to create this production cluster. And then you have services. Services are a single image that's run as a Container for…

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