Docker remote management

Question

I am developing a solution (application) that basically creates a Webservice for communication between an Android app and a database. My question now is how I will manage and distribute this solution. From what I’ve studied so far, the Docker will be a hand on the wheel as I can create the containers with all the necessary settings, and on my customers just install the Docker and download the containers through the Docker hub.

My question is: Is there any tool to manage Docker remotely as follows?

I will install and configure Docker with my application containers on 10 different (or more) business computers. I would like to monitor, manage all Docker each computer in one place.

Another important thing is that when there is some update of my application or if there is a need to make some adjustments in all Docker or just in a specific one, I would like to do this kind of maintenance by the manager.

Does anyone know any similar solution?

Answer 1

Docker monitoring can be done with Datadog. Management can be done with Dockercloud or Rancher, centrally.

From your perspective of deploying containers to your customers, there are some aspects to consider:

Each container is a live instance of an image, which in turn is a photo of a process/app and its dependencies, thus each update should cause a drop of the container and its recreation, with more version image recent (beware of volatile data)

Still, the Rancher can help you manage your entire container park.

Answer 2

I think it is simpler to use in Rancher and add the program Prometheus and together with it has Grafana which has a sample of reports and dashboards and totally 100% with open-source and free.