# Moving docker containers across multiple clouds

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 26, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927 "2016-05-26T18:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![gilford.goa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@gilford.goa](https://forums.suse.com/u/gilford.goa)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927/1 "2016-05-26T18:45:22Z")

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Can rancher be used alongwith mesosphere/docker swarm to move docker container running on 1 cloud (eg. AWS) to another cloud (eg.GCE) ?

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927/2 "2016-05-27T06:55:50Z")

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You can use it to deploy containers across hosts in multiple clouds and have contaniers in all locations able to communicate with each other using the managed network; but there is no mechanism to physically move a single container from one host to another.

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**Author:** ![gilford.goa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/59ef9b/32.png) [@gilford.goa](https://forums.suse.com/u/gilford.goa)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927/3 "2016-06-02T19:31:44Z")

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Hi Vincent,  
Is this container movement across clouds something that is planned to be included in the future releases ?  
Like in case of disaster recovery, this could be very useful.

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/moving-docker-containers-across-multiple-clouds/2927/4 "2016-06-02T19:47:46Z")

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If there’s a disaster then it’s too late to move things. The typical architecture would be to have redundancy running all the time so that you could survive a failure of any one (or more) zone/provider and be able to spin up additional capacity or zones to replace lost one(s).

The main user case for one-off moving of containers is preemptively migrating off of hosts to perform maintenance. But if you can survive a real failure them this unnecessary too (though maybe faster or more convenient).