EMC {code} shares how to deploy ECS with Five Ways of Docker

We’ve been in a lot of conversations about DevOps recently, with customers, partners, community members and EMC teams. Whether or not you believe in the buzz around DevOps, there is definitively a wave of new and open tools, proclogo-emc-codeesses, and operational models being used in IT. These are all trends that can’t be ignored, and we’re continuously working to make sure EMC’s product strategy adapts with these changes.

EMC {code} is a developer evangelism team within EMC. We contribute to major open source projects, create our own tools and projects (also entirely in the open– in fact– you can find them all on GitHub, here), and engage with developer communities. Several of our team members have worked with EMC SDS products over the past few years, and we’ve enjoyed seeing the progress made to make our SDS tools readily accessible for developers and IT/ops alike.

Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) has long been a developer-friendly product, with universal protocols like object and HFDS, and a software-only download option. The recently announced ECS 2.0 is chock full of updates that are making the lives of dev/ops teams easier—including enhanced geo-caching, multi-tenancy capabilities, monitoring and reporting, and the ability to automatically and rapidly failover and recover from outages.

ECS 2.0 only enhances the experience for developers with a containerized download, free for test-and-dev environments (non-production use today). This has been another milestone in providing free and frictionless access to EMC software (along with the open-sourced CoprHD and free download of ScaleIO).

Our team works with Docker containers on a regular basis, and when ECS was announced, we rolled up our sleeves to see exactly how we could integrate Docker tools into the ECS experience.

In addition to the containerized download, we wanted to explore ways of deploying ECS with broader Docker technology. Deploying multi-node ECS is fast and easy with Docker tools. Using Docker Machine, you can deploy Ubuntu hosts that will be a part of a Docker Swarm cluster. With Docker Compose, you can deploy ECS from Docker Hub to a Docker Engine container on each host in the Docker Swarm cluster. If you are interested in how to do this, you can check out the GitHub repo or watch this quick video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyi5hGH-2k

With this automated process, everything will be complete and configured in the span of 10-15 minutes. To get all of the details, please visit the EMC {code} blog post on the topic, or send us a tweet with your feedback to @EMCcode.

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