Make Docker Containers Dynamic

When implementing a container strategy in your IT footprint one of the pitfalls is to build a lot of containers. The better strategy is to limit the number of containers you use and ensure you can influence how the act within a certain environment by dynamically influence the configuration within the container.

Using Consul as a key value store for storing configuration for containers and have containers fetch this information when needed is a proven strategy which can work very well in large and distributed environments which have a large set of containers up and running.

In this blogpost we use the example of Oracle ORDS in a Docker Container in combination with Consul KV stores to showcase how you can make your Docker containers more dynamic. Read more at my blog.