commit 69802df000f654388b3f8c049ddded92b53a5380 Author: root Date: Mon Jun 8 13:53:18 2020 +0000 README commit diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b752fa --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +### In this virtual lab we used mainly the following tools: +* Docker swarm for service creation and container orchestration +* Linux Containers (LXC) for worker nodes +* Ansible for automation +* Galera-inside-docker for MariaDB clustering + +In more detail, the manager node is running on the host machine itself, while the provisioning \ +of LXC containers permits the creation of multiple worker nodes on which the galera cluster runs, \ +running on the same host without the need for separate worker machines. +Ansible is used for the total automation of the deployment process, which is constituted after by \ +the usage of Makefile, in the specific case of the combination of LXC with Docker swarm and Galera \ +cluster, provided that all the necessary modules are available with the latest version of ansible \ +which is installed automatically by make.