The Docker Workshop

9. Docker Swarm

Overview

In this chapter, you will work with Docker Swarm from the command line to manage running nodes, deploy services, and perform rolling updates on your services when needed. You will learn how to troubleshoot your Swarm nodes and deploy entire stacks using your existing Docker Compose files, as well as learning how you can use Swarm to manage your service configuration and secrets. The final part of this chapter will provide you with the knowledge you need to get started using Swarmpit, which is a web-based interface for running and managing your Docker Swarm services and clusters.

Introduction

So far in this book, we've run our Docker containers and controlled the way they run from the command line using direct commands ...