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Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By : Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi
Book Image

Native Docker Clustering with Swarm

By: Fabrizio Soppelsa, Chanwit Kaewkasi

Overview of this book

Docker Swarm serves as one of the crucial components of the Docker ecosystem and offers a native solution for you to orchestrate containers. It’s turning out to be one of the preferred choices for Docker clustering thanks to its recent improvements. This book covers Swarm, Swarm Mode, and SwarmKit. It gives you a guided tour on how Swarm works and how to work with Swarm. It describes how to set up local test installations and then moves to huge distributed infrastructures. You will be shown how Swarm works internally, what’s new in Swarmkit, how to automate big Swarm deployments, and how to configure and operate a Swarm cluster on the public and private cloud. This book will teach you how to meet the challenge of deploying massive production-ready applications and a huge number of containers on Swarm. You'll also cover advanced topics that include volumes, scheduling, a Libnetwork deep dive, security, and platform scalability.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Native Docker Clustering with Swarm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Graphical interfaces for Swarm


At the moment of writing, Swarm mode is so young, that the existing Docker graphical user interfaces support is yet to come or is in progress.

Shipyard

Shipyard (https://shipyard-project.com/), which has a nice support for Swarm (v1) operations, is now updated to use Swarm mode. At the of writing (August 2016), there is a 1.12 branch on Github, that makes this workable.

At the time this book will be published, probably a stable version will be available for automated deployment already. You can take a look at the instructions at https://shipyard-project.com/docs/deploy/automated/.

It will be something similar to going in SSH to the leader manager host and run a one liner, such as:

curl -sSL https://shipyard-project.com/deploy | bash -s

In case we still need to install a specific non-stable branch, download it from Github to the leader manager host and install Docker Compose.

curl -L 
    https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.8.0/docker-
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