In this post, I’ll review Docker multi-host network performance.
In a past post, I tested Docker network. The MySQL Server team provided their own results, which are in line with my observations.
For this set of tests, I wanted to focus more on Docker networking using multiple hosts. Mostly because when we set up a high availability (HA) environment (using Percona XtraDB Cluster, for example) the expectation is that instances are running on different hosts.
Another reason for this test is that Docker recently announced the 1.12 release, which supports Swarm Mode. Swarm Mode is quite interesting by …
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