MaestroNG

Introduction

MaestroNG is an orchestrator of Docker-based, multi-hosts environments. Working from a description of your environment, MaestroNG offers service-level and container-level controls that rely on Maestro’s understanding of your declared service dependencies, and placement of your containers in your fleet of hosts.

Maestro aims at being simple to use whether you are controlling a few containers in a local virtual machine, or hundreds of containers spread across as many hosts.

The orchestration features of Maestro obviously rely on the collaboration of the Docker containers that you are controlling with Maestro. Maestro basically takes care of two things:

  1. Controlling the start (and stop) order of services during environment bring up and tear down according to the defined dependencies between services.
  2. Passing extra environment variables to each container to pass all the information it may need to operate in that environment, in particular information about its dependencies.

The most common way to integrate your application with Maestro is to make your container’s entrypoint a simple Python init script that acts as the glue between Maestro, the information that it passes through the container’s environment, and your application. To make this easier to write and put together, Maestro provides a set of Maestro guest functions that know how to grok this environment information.