March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
Docker Swarm (http://docs.docker.com/swarm/) is native clustering to Docker. It groups multiple Docker hosts into a single pool in which one can launch containers. In this recipe, we'll use Docker Machine (http://docs.docker.com/machine/) to set up a Swarm cluster. At the time of writing, Swarm is still not production-ready. If you recall, we used Docker Machine to set up a Docker host on Google Compute Engine in Chapter 1, Introduction and Installation. To keep things simple, here we'll use VirtualBox as the backend for Docker Machine to configure hosts.
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