In this section, we're going to install Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) version 3.0. UCP is part of Docker's enterprise offering and supports the two orchestration engines, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. UCP can be installed in the cloud or on-premise. Even hybrid clouds are possible with UCP.
To try this, you need a valid license for Docker EE or you can claim a free test license on Docker Store.
Create an auto scaling group (ASG) in AWS using the Ubuntu 16.04 server AMI. Configure the ASG to contain three instances of size t2.xlarge
. Here is the result of this:
ASG on AWS ready for Docker EE
Once the ASG has been created, and before we continue, we need to open the SG a bit (of which our ASG is part of) so that we can access it through SSH from our laptop and also so that the VMs can communicate with each other. Navigate to your SG and add two new inbound rules, shown here:
AWS Security Group settings
In the preceding screenshot...