AstriCon 2017

The world of containerized applications continue to evolve at a dizzying pace. Docker open-source is now a subset of the Moby Project, Kubernetes continues to build out their vast range of features, and everybody is talking about them both. But what does this mean for you, the Asterisk administrator or developer, who doesn't have time to follow the constant churning? This talk will go into depth on how to deploy a geographical distributed cluster of Asterisk machines utilizing Docker Swarm. We'll cover everything from initially bootstrapping the swarm through deploying to multiple DigitalOcean datacenters, how we can automatically route SIP traffic to the closest server to the endpoint, and what happens when a node fails. We'll cover the self-healing and intelligent aspects of Swarm routing and how they can be leverage to avoid downtime and scale up quickly. The goal of this talk is to leave you with concrete, actionable steps you can take to Swarm-ize your own Asterisk installation.