Practitioner Level

Setting Up Docker Swarm

1 hour

3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

After years of running containers on a single Docker host, you’ve decided to migrate over to using Docker Swarm. Using Swarm will allow your clients to scale the number of containers up, as demand increases, and then down as demand dies off.

Before you can do this, you first need to set up a Swarm cluster consisting of a manager and a worker node. Once setup is complete, create an Nginx service to test the cluster.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Initialize the Swarm

On the manager node, initialize the swarm:

[cloud_user@manager]$ docker swarm init 
--advertise-addr [MANAGER_PRIVATE_IP]

Add the Worker to the Cluster

Add the worker to the cluster:

[cloud_user@worker]$ docker swarm join --token [TOKEN] 
[MANAGER_PRIVATE_IP]:2377

Create a Swarm Service

Create nginx_service:

[cloud_user@master]$ docker service create -d --name nginx_service -p 8080:80 --replicas 2 nginx:latest

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Setting up the Swarm:

Login to your Swarm manager and initialize the swarm. Use the advertise-addr flag and supply the private IP of the manager.

Use the join command that gets generated, and have the worker node join the swarm.

Test the swarm by listing the nodes.

Create a Service:

Create an Nginx service that runs in the background.
Name it nginx_service.
Publish port 8080 on the host to port 80 on the container.
Make sure that the service has two replicas.
Make sure to user the latest image of Nginx.

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