[m_mueller]

This is a bit off-topic, but I'll hope for the second "A" in AMA: I still have a bit trouble figuring out how docker envisions URL routing to work. Currently we use a simple setup with Hipache that forwards to our hosts running containers und multiple ports. This would work for failover and scaling as well, however at the point where DBs come into play it gets troublesome because hipache just routes in a round-robin manner instead of keeping routes persistent for each client IP (so you could end up showing them different replicas that are not in sync yet).

Anyways, my issue is: Does Swarm integrate a solution for URL routing and if so, does it tackle the persistency problem?

[nicolaka]

In the commercial product(DDC) there is something called HTTP Routing Mesh that basically adds URL routing to backend services using the underlying routing mesh in Swarm. It supports both HTTP and HTTPS ( w/SNI). It adds RBAC too to make sure only permitted services can be exposed externally. More details here:

https://success.docker.com/Datacenter/Apply/Docker_Reference...

Hope this helps!