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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm
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The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm

by Viktor Farcic
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
436 pages
9h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Discovering addresses of all instances that form a service

If you browse through the official Docker documentation, you will not find any reference to addresses of individual instances that form a service.

The previous sentence might not be true at the time you're reading this. Someone might have updated the documentation. However, at the time I'm writing this chapter, there is not a trace of such information.

The fact that something is not documented does not mean that it does not exist. Indeed, there is a special DNS that will return all IPs.

To see it in action, we'll create the global service called util and attach it to the proxy network:

docker service create --name util \    --network proxy --mode global \    alpine sleep 1000000000docker ...
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