UCP administrators manage Docker Swarm and Kubernetes clusters. They integrate external LDAP/AD authentication. Authentication can be delegated but UCP manages authorizations, as we learned in the Role-based access control and isolation section.
The following screenshot shows the Admin Settings endpoint:
Docker Enterprise license can be introduced during installation, but it also can be manage from the web UI in Admin Settings. This endpoint also allow us to do the following administration tasks:
- Rotate Docker Swarm's tokens to improve a cluster's security. Tokens are only used to join nodes to the cluster; we can change them whenever we need to.
- Manage Interlock's ports and enable publishing applications using this feature. We will talk about Interlock in Chapter 12, Publishing Applications in Docker Enterprise.
- Configure some cluster configurations such as UCP's port and key-value database snapshots.
- Integrate external LDAP and configure...