In this recipe, we'll walk through the installation of Weave as well as how to provision Weave services on your Docker hosts. We'll also show how Weave handles connecting hosts that wish to participate in the Weave network.
In this example, we'll be using the same lab topology we used in Chapter 3, User-Defined Networks, where we discussed user-defined overlay networks:
You'll need a couple of hosts, preferably with some of them being on different subnets. It is assumed that the Docker hosts used in this lab are in their default configuration. In some cases, the changes we make may require you to have root-level access to the system.
Weave is installed and managed through the Weave CLI tool. Once downloaded, it manages not only Weave-related configuration but also the provisioning of Weave services. On each host you wish to configure, you simply run the following three commands:
Download the Weave binary to your local system:
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