Story about Docker Swarm with GlusterFS and Gitlab CI – Episode 1

This article should become an article series, which will explain how to setup a complete and production ready hosting, continous integration and building environment with Docker Swarm, GlusterFS and Gitlab Community Edition. Because of the complexity for each topic, this article would be divided into multiple parts which will explain the details.

The introduction article (this one) will give you the big picture of what we’re doing at our company and what infrastructure is serving our more than 120 Docker containers (in 51 swarm stacks), which mostly contains productive customer applications we have built.

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