May 2025
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
6h 1m
English
This chapter that shows you how to deploy a multi-node Swarm cluster and how to run apps on it.
It’s a smaller chapter than in previous editions because Swarm is declining in popularity and is no longer core to modern Docker workflows. If you need more of a deep dive, you can access the longer version in the swarm-chapters folder of the book’s GitHub repo. I’ve rewritten this shorter chapter to make way for adding the Docker and AI chapter without increasing the cost of the book.
I’ve divided this chapter as follows:
Throughout the chapter, we’ll use Swarm with a capital “S” to refer to the Docker Swarm orchestration technology, and we’ll use swarm with a lower case “s” to refer ...
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