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Docker Orchestration
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Docker Orchestration

by Randall Smith
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Managing a swarm

One of the easiest pieces to overlook when it comes to orchestrating Docker is how to manage the cluster itself. In this section, you will see how to manage your swarm including adding and removing nodes, changing their availability, and backup and recovery. In Chapter 10, Why Stop at Containers? Automating Your Infrastructure, we will learn about automating node deployment in depth.

Adding a node

New worker nodes can be added at any time. Install Docker, then run docker swarm join-token worker to get the docker swarm join command to join the host to the swarm. Once added, the worker will be available to run tasks. Take note that the command to join the cluster is consistent. This makes it easy to add to a host configuration script ...

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