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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x
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Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 18.x

by Dr. Gabriel N. Schenker
April 2018
Beginner
398 pages
10h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Services

A swarm service is an abstract thing. It is a description of the desired state of an application or application service that we want to run in a swarm. The swarm service is like a manifest describing such things as the:

  • Name of the service
  • Image from which to create the containers
  • Number of replicas to run
  • Network(s) that the containers of the service are attached to
  • Ports that should be mapped

Having this service manifest the swarm manager, then, makes sure that the described desired state is always reconciled if ever the actual state should deviate from it. So, if for example one instance of the service crashes, then the scheduler on the swarm manager schedules a new instance of the service on a node with free resources so that ...

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