Schlagwort: docker-machine

  • Docker Swarm – Multiple Nodes

    In the first part of this series, we built a Docker swarm, consisting of just one node (our local machine). The nodes can act as swarm-managers and (or) swarm-workers. Now we want to create a swarm that spans more than one node (one machine).

    Creating a Swarm

    Creating the Infrastructure

    First, we set up a cluster, consisting of Virtual Machines. We have used Vagrant before to create Virtual Machines on our local machine. Here, we will use docker-machine to create virtual machines on VirtualBox (you should have VirtualBox installed on your computer). docker-machine is a tool to create Docker VMs, however, it should not be used in production, where more configuration of a virtual machine is needed.

    docker-machine create --driver virtualbox vm-manager

    docker-machine create --driver virtualbox vm-worker1

    docker-machine uses a lightweight Linux distribution (boot2docker) including Docker, that will start within seconds (after the image was downloaded). As an alternative, you might use the alpine2docker Vagrant box.

    Let us have a look at our virtual machines

    docker-machine ls

    NAME ACTIVE DRIVER STATE URL SWARM DOCKER ERRORS
    vm-manager - virtualbox Running tcp://192.168.99.104:2376 v18.06.0-ce
    vm-worker1 - virtualbox Running tcp://192.168.99.105:2376 v18.06.0-ce

    Setting Up the Swarm

    As the name suggests, our first vm1 will be a swarm-manager, while the other two machines will be swarm-workers. Let us log into our first Virtual Machine and define it as a swarm-manager

    docker-machine ssh vm-manager

    docker swarm init

    You might run into an error message such as

    Error response from daemon: could not choose an IP address to advertise since this system has multiple addresses on different interfaces (10.0.2.15 on eth0 and 192.168.99.104 on eth1) - specify one with --advertise-addr

    I initialised the swarm with the local address (192.168.99.104) on eth1. You will get the ip address of a machine, using

    docker-machine ip vm-manager (outside of the VM)

    So now let us try to initialise the swarm again

    docker swarm init --advertise-addr 192.168.99.104

    Swarm initialized: current node (9cnhj2swve2rynyh6fx7h72if) is now a manager.
    
    To add a worker to this swarm, run the following command:
    
        docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-2k1c6126hvjkch1ub74gea0hkcr1timpqlcxr5p4msm598xxg7-6fj5ccmlqdjgrw36ll2t3zr2t 192.168.99.104:2377
    
    To add a manager to this swarm, run 'docker swarm join-token manager' and follow the instructions.
    

    The output displays the command to add a worker to the swarm. So now we can log into our two worker VMs and execute this command to initialise the swarm mode as a worker. You don’t have to open a secure shell on the VM explicitly; you can also execute a command on the VM directly

    docker-machine ssh vm-worker1 docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-2k1c6126hvjkch1ub74gea0hkcr1timpqlcxr5p4msm598xxg7-6fj5ccmlqdjgrw36ll2t3zr2t 192.168.99.104:2377

    You should see something like

    This node joined a swarm as a worker.

    To see if everything ran smoothly, we can list the nodes in our swarm

    docker-machine ssh vm-manager docker node ls

    ID                            HOSTNAME            STATUS              AVAILABILITY        MANAGER STATUS      ENGINE VERSION
    9cnhj2swve2rynyh6fx7h72if *   vm-manager          Ready               Active              Leader              18.06.0-ce
    sfflcyts946pazrr2q9rjh79x     vm-worker1          Ready               Active                                  18.06.0-ce

    The main difference between a worker node and a manager node is that managers are workers that can control the swarm. The node I invoke swarm init, will become the swarm leader (and manager, by default). There can be several managers, but only one swarm leader.

    During initialisation, a root certificate for the swarm is created, a certificate is issued for this first node and the join tokens for new managers and workers are created.

    Most of the swarm data is stored in a so Raft-database (such as certificates, configurations etc.). This database is distributed over all manager nodes. A Raft is a consensus algorithm that insists consistency over the manager nodes (Docker implementation of the Raft algorithm). thesecretliveofdata.com provides a brilliant tutorial about the raft algorithm.

    Most data is stored encrypted on the nodes. The communication inside of the swarm is encrypted.

    Docker Swarm
    Docker Swarm

     

    Dictate Docker to run Commands against particular Node

    Set environment variables to dictate that docker should run a command against a particular machine.

    Running pre-create checks...
    Creating machine...
    (vm-manager) Copying /Users/vividbreeze/.docker/machine/cache/boot2docker.iso to /Users/vividbreeze/.docker/machine/machines/vm-manager/boot2docker.iso...
    (vm-manager) Creating VirtualBox VM...
    (vm-manager) Creating SSH key...
    (vm-manager) Starting the VM...
    (vm-manager) Check network to re-create if needed...
    (vm-manager) Waiting for an IP...
    Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
    Detecting operating system of created instance...
    Waiting for SSH to be available...
    Detecting the provisioner...
    Provisioning with boot2docker...
    Copying certs to the local machine directory...
    Copying certs to the remote machine...
    Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
    Checking connection to Docker...
    Docker is up and running!
    To see how to connect your Docker Client to the Docker Engine running on this virtual machine, run: docker-machine env vm-manager

    The last line tells you, how to connect your client (your machine), to the virtual machine you just created

    docker-machine env vm-manager

    exports the necessary docker environment variables with the values for the VM vm-manager

    export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY="1"
    export DOCKER_HOST="tcp://192.168.99.109:2376"
    export DOCKER_CERT_PATH="/Users/vividbreeze/.docker/machine/machines/vm-manager"
    export DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME="vm-manager"
    # Run this command to configure your shell:
    # eval $(docker-machine env vm-manager)

    eval $(docker-machine env vm-manager)

    dictates docker, to run all commands against vm-manager, e.g. the above docker node ls, or  docker image ls etc. will also run against the VM vm-manager.

    So now I can use docker node ls directly, to list the nodes in my swarm, as all docker commands now run against Docker on vm-manager (before I had to usedocker-machine ssh vm-manager docker node ls).

    To reverse this command use docker-machine env -u and subsequently eval $(docker-machine env -u).

    Deploying the Application

    Now we can use the example from part I of the tutorial. Here is a copy of my docker-compose.yml, so you can follow this example (I increase the number of replicas from 3 to 5).

    version: "3"
    services:
      dataservice:
        image: vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
        deploy:
          replicas: 5
          restart_policy:
            condition: on-failure
        ports:
          - "4000:8080"

    Let us deploy our service as describe in docker-compose.yml and name it dataservice

    docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dataapp

    Creating network dataapp_default
    Creating service dataapp_dataservice

    Docker created a new service, called dataapp_dataservice and a network called dataapp_default. The network is a private network for the services that belong to the swarm to communicate with each other. We will have a closer look at networking in the next tutorial. So far nothing new as it seems.

    Let us have a closer look at our dataservice

    docker stack ps dataapp

    ID                  NAME                    IMAGE                                  NODE                    DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE                    ERROR               PORTS
    s79brivew6ye        dataapp_dataservice.1   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running less than a second ago
    gn3sncfbzc2s        dataapp_dataservice.2   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running less than a second ago
    wg5184iug130        dataapp_dataservice.3   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running less than a second ago
    i4a90y3hd6i6        dataapp_dataservice.4   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running less than a second ago
    b4prawsu81mu        dataapp_dataservice.5   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running less than a second ago

    As you can see, the load was distributed to both VMs, no matter which role they have (swarm manager or swarm worker).

    The requests can now go either against the IP of the VM manager or the VM worker. You can obtain its IP-address of the vm-manager with

    docker-machine ip vm-manager

    Now let us fire 10 requests against vm-manager to see if our service works

    repeat 10 { curl 192.168.99.109:4000; echo }

    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>139</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>3846</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>149</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2646</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>847</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>139</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>3846</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>149</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2646</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>847</id></result>

    If everything is working, we should see five different kinds of responses (as five items were deployed in our swarm). The following picture describes shows how services are deployed.

    Docker Stack Deployment Process
    Docker Stack Deployment Process

    When we call docker stack deploy, the command transfers the docker-compose.yml to the swarm manager, the manager creates the services and deploys it to the swarm (as defined in the deploy-part of the docker-compose.yml). Each of the replicas (in our case 5) is called a task. Each task can be deployed on one or nodes (basically the container with the service-image is started on this node); this can be on a swarm-manager or swarm-worker. The result is depicted in the next picture.

    Docker Service Deployment
    Docker Service Deployment

    Managing the Swarm

    Dealing with a Crashed Node

    In the last tutorial, we defined a restart-policy, so the swarm-manger will automatically start a new container, in case one crashes. Let us now see what happens when we remote our worker

    docker-machine rm vm-worker1

    We can see that while the server (vm-worker1) is shutting down, new tasks are created on the vm-manager

    > docker stack ps dataservice
    ID                  NAME                    IMAGE                                  NODE                DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE                  ERROR               PORTS
    vc26y4375kbt        dataapp_dataservice.1       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Ready               Ready less than a second ago
    kro6i06ljtk6         \_ dataapp_dataservice.1   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker1          Shutdown            Running 12 minutes ago
    ugw5zuvdatgp        dataapp_dataservice.2       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 12 minutes ago
    u8pi3o4jn90p        dataapp_dataservice.3       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Ready               Ready less than a second ago
    hqp9to9puy6q         \_ dataapp_dataservice.3   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker1          Shutdown            Running 12 minutes ago
    iqwpetbr9qv2        dataapp_dataservice.4       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 12 minutes ago
    koiy3euv9g4h        dataapp_dataservice.5       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Ready               Ready less than a second ago
    va66g4n3kwb5         \_ dataapp_dataservice.5   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker1          Shutdown            Running 12 minutes ago

    A moment later you will see all 5 tasks running up again.

    Dealing with Increased Workload in a Swarm

    Increasing the number of Nodes

    Let us now assume that the workload on our dataservice is growing rapidly. Firstly, we can distribute the load to more VMs.

    docker-machine create --driver virtualbox vm-worker2

    docker-machine create --driver virtualbox vm-worker3

    In case we forgot the token that is necessary to join our swarm as a worker, use

    docker swarm join-token worker

    Now let us add our two new machines to the swarm

    docker-machine ssh vm-worker2 docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-371xs3hz1yi8vfoxutr01qufa5e4kyy0k1c6fvix4k62iq8l2h-969rhkw0pnwc2ahhnblm4ic1m 192.168.99.109:2377

    docker-machine ssh vm-worker3 docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-371xs3hz1yi8vfoxutr01qufa5e4kyy0k1c6fvix4k62iq8l2h-969rhkw0pnwc2ahhnblm4ic1m 192.168.99.109:2377

    As you can see when using docker stack ps dataapp, the tasks were not automatically deployed to the new VMs.

    ID                  NAME                IMAGE                                  NODE                DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE            ERROR               PORTS
    0rp9mk0ocil2        dataapp_dataservice.1   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 18 minutes ago
    3gju7xv20ktr        dataapp_dataservice.2   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    wwi72sji3k6v        dataapp_dataservice.3   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    of5uketh1dbk        dataapp_dataservice.4   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    xzmnmjnpyxmc        dataapp_dataservice.5   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 13 minutes ago

    The swarm-manager decides when to utilise new nodes. Its main priority is to avoid disruption of running services (even when they are idle). Of course, you can always force an update, which might take some time

    docker service update dataapp_dataservice -f

    Increasing the number of Replicas

    In addition, we can also increase the number of replicas in our docker-compose.xml

    version: "3"
    services:
      dataservice:
        image: vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
        deploy:
          replicas: 10
          restart_policy:
            condition: on-failure
        ports:
          - "4000:8080"

    Now rundocker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dataservice

    docker stack ps dataapp shows that 5 new tasks (and respectively containers) have been created. Now the swarm-manager has utilised the new VMs.

    D                  NAME                 IMAGE                                  NODE                DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE             ERROR               PORTS
    0rp9mk0ocil2        dataapp_dataservice.1    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 20 minutes ago
    3gju7xv20ktr        dataapp_dataservice.2    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 15 minutes ago
    wwi72sji3k6v        dataapp_dataservice.3    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 15 minutes ago
    of5uketh1dbk        dataapp_dataservice.4    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 15 minutes ago
    xzmnmjnpyxmc        dataapp_dataservice.5    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-manager          Running             Running 15 minutes ago
    qn1ilzk57dhw        dataapp_dataservice.6    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker3          Running             Preparing 3 seconds ago
    5eyq0t8fqr2y        dataapp_dataservice.7    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker3          Running             Preparing 3 seconds ago
    txvf6yaq6v3i        dataapp_dataservice.8    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker2          Running             Preparing 3 seconds ago
    b2y3o5iwxmx1        dataapp_dataservice.9    vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker3          Running             Preparing 3 seconds ago
    rpov7buw9czc        dataapp_dataservice.10   vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   vm-worker3          Running             Preparing 3 seconds ago

    Further Remarks

    To summarise

    • Use docker-machine (as an alternative to vagrant or others) to create VMs running Docker.
    • Use docker swarm to define a cluster that can run your application. The cluster can span physical machines and virtual machines (also in clouds). A machine can either be a manager or a worker.
    • Define your application in a docker-compose.yml.
    • Use docker stack to deploy your application in the swarm.

    This again was a simple, pretty straightforward example. You can easily use docker-machine to create VMs in AWS E2 or Google Compute Engine and cloud services. Use this script to quickly install Docker on a VM.

    A quick note, please always be aware on which machine you are working. You can easily get the Docker CLI to run against a different machine with docker-machine env vm-manager.  To reverse this command use docker-machine env -u.

  • Docker Swarm – Single Node

    In the previous tutorial, we created one small service, and let it run in an isolated Docker container. In reality, your application might consist of many of different services. An e-commerce application encompasses services to register new customers, search for products, list products, show recommendations and so on. These services might even exist more than one time when they are heavily requested. So an application can be seen as a composition of different services (that run in containers).

    In this first part of the tutorial, we will work with the simple application of the Docker Basics Tutorial, that contains only one service. We will deploy this service more than one time and let run on only one machine. In part II we will scale this application over many machines.

    Prerequisites

    Before we start, you should have completed the first part of the tutorial series. As a result, you should an image uploaded to the DockerHub registry. In my case, the image name is vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1.

    Docker Swarm

    As mentioned above, a real-world application consists of many containers spread over different hosts. Many hosts can be grouped to a so-called swarm (mainly hosts that run Docker in swarm-mode). A swarm is managed by one or more swarm managers and consists of one or many workers. Before we continue, we have to initial a swarm on our machine.

    docker swarm init

    Swarm initialized: current node (pnb2698sy8gw3c82whvwcrd77) is now a manager.
    
    To add a worker to this swarm, run the following command:
    
        docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-39y3w3x0iiqppn57pf2hnrtoj867m992xd9fqkd4c3p83xtej0-9mpv98zins5l0ts8j62ociz4w 192.168.65.3:2377
    
    To add a manager to this swarm, run 'docker swarm join-token manager' and follow the instructions.

    The swarm was initialised with one node (our machine) as a swarm manager.

    Docker Stack

    We now have to design our application. We do this in a file called docker-compose.yml.  So far, we have just developed one service, and that runs inside one Docker container. In this part of the tutorial, our application will only consist of one service. Now let us assume this service is heavily used and we want to scale it.

    version: "3"
    services:
      dataservice:
        image: vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
        deploy:
          replicas: 3
        ports:
          - "4000:8080"
    

    The file contains the name of our service and the number of instances (or replicas) that should be deployed. We now do the port mapping here. The port 8080 that is used by the service inside of our container will be mapped to the port 4000 on our host.

    To create our application use (you have to invoke this command from the vm-manager node)

    docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dataapp

    Creating network dataapp_default
    Creating service dataapp_dataservice

    Docker now has created a network dataservice_web and a network dataservice_webnet. We will come to networking in the last part of this tutorial. By „stack“, Docker means a stack of (scaled) services that together form an application. A stack can be deployed on one swarm. It has to be called from a Swarm manager.

    Let us now have a look, of how many containers were created

    docker container ls

    ONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                  COMMAND              CREATED                  STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
    bb18e9d71530        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   Less than a second ago   Up 8 seconds                                 dataapp_dataservice.3.whaxlg53wxugsrw292l19gm2b
    441fb80b9476        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   Less than a second ago   Up 7 seconds                                 dataapp_dataservice.4.93x7ma6xinyde9jhearn8hjav
    512eedb2ac63        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   Less than a second ago   Up 6 seconds                                 dataapp_dataservice.1.v1o32qvqu75ipm8sra76btfo6
    
    

    In Docker terminology, each of these containers is called a task. Now each container cannot be accessed directly through the localhost and the port (they have no port), but through a manager, that listens to port 4000 on the localhost. These five containers, containing the same service, are bundled together and appear as one service. This service is listed by using

    docker service ls
    ID                  NAME                  MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE                                  PORTS
    zfbbxn0rgksx        dataapp_dataservice   replicated          5/5                 vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   *:4000->8080/tcp

    You can see the tasks (containers) that belong to this services with

    docker service ps dataservice_web

    ID                  NAME                    IMAGE                                  NODE                    DESIRED STATE       CURRENT STATE            ERROR                         PORTS
    lmw0gnxcs57o        dataapp_dataservice.1       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    fozpqkmrmsb3        dataapp_dataservice.2       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    gc6dccwxw53f        dataapp_dataservice.3       vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   linuxkit-025000000001   Running             Running 13 minutes ago
    

    Now let us call the service 10 times

    repeat 10 { curl localhost:4000; echo } (zsh)
    for ((n=0;n<10;n++)); do curl localhost:4000; echo; done (bash)

    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2925</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>1624</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2515</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2925</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>1624</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2515</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2925</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>1624</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2515</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2925</id></result>

    Now you can see, that our service is called ten times, each time one of the services running inside of the containers were used to handle the request (you see three different ids). The service manager (dataservice-web) acts as a load-balancer. In this case, the load balancer uses a round-robin strategy.

    To sum it up, in the docker-compose.yml, we defined our desired state (3 replicas of one service). Docker tries to maintain this desired state using the resources that are available. In our case, one host (one node). A swarm-manager manages the service, including the containers, we have just created. The service can be reached at port 4000 on the localhost.

    Restart Policy

    This can be useful for updating the number of replicas or changing other parameters. Let us play with some of the parameters. Let us add a restart policy to our docker-compose.yml

    version: "3"
    services:
      dataservice:
        image: vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
        deploy:
          replicas: 3
          restart_policy:
            condition: on-failure
        ports:
          - "4000:8080"

    and update our configuration

    docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dataapp

    Let us now call our service again 3 times to memorise the ids

    repeat 3 { curl localhost:4000; echo  }
    
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>713</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>1157</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>3494</id></result>

    Now let us get the names of our containers

    docker container ls -f "name=dataservice_web"
    
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                  COMMAND              CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
    953e010ab4e5        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   15 minutes ago      Up 15 minutes                           dataapp_dataservice.1.pb0r4rkr8wzacitgzfwr5fcs7
    f732ffccfdad        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   15 minutes ago      Up 15 minutes                           dataapp_dataservice.3.rk7seglslg66cegt6nrehzhzi
    8fb716ef0091        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   15 minutes ago      Up 15 minutes                           datasapp_dataservice.2.0mdkfpjxpldnezcqvc7gcibs8

    Now let us kill one of these containers, to see if our manager will start a new one again

    docker container rm -f 953e010ab4e5

    It may take a few seconds, but then you will see a newly created container created by the swarm manager (the container-id of the first container is now different).

    docker container ls -f "name=dataservice_web"
    
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                                  COMMAND              CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
    bc8b6fa861be        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   53 seconds ago      Up 48 seconds                           dataapp_dataservice.1.5aminmnu9fx8qnbzoklfbzyj5
    f732ffccfdad        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   17 minutes ago      Up 17 minutes                           dataapp_dataservice.3.rk7seglslg66cegt6nrehzhzi
    8fb716ef0091        vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1   "java DataService"   18 minutes ago      Up 17 minutes                           dataapp_datavervice.2.0mdkfpjxpldnezcqvc7gcibs8

    The id in the response of one of the replicas of the service has changed

    repeat 3 { curl localhost:4000; echo  }
    
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>2701</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>1157</id></result>
    <?xml version="1.0" ?><result><name>hello</name><id>3494</id></result>

    Resources Allocation

    You can also change the resources, such as CPU-time and memory that will be allocated to a service

    ...
    image: vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
    deploy:
      replicas: 3
      restart_policy:
        condition: on-failure
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '0.50'
          memory: 10M
        reservations:
          cpus: '0.25'
          memory: 5M
    ...

    The service will be allocated to at most 50% CPU-time and 50 MBytes of memory, and at least 25% CPU-time and 5 MBytes of memory.

    Docker Compose

    Instead of docker stack, you can also use docker-compose. docker-compose is a program, written in Python, that does the container orchestration for you on a local machine, e.g. it ignores the deploy-part in the docker-compose.yml.

    However, docker-compose uses some nice debugging and clean-up functionality, e.g. if you start our application with

    docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up

    you will see the logs of all services (we only have one at the moment) colour-coded in your terminal window.

    WARNING: Some services (web) use the 'deploy' key, which will be ignored. Compose does not support 'deploy' configuration - use `docker stack deploy` to deploy to a swarm.
    WARNING: The Docker Engine you're using is running in swarm mode.
    
    Compose does not use swarm mode to deploy services to multiple nodes in a swarm. All containers will be scheduled on the current node.
    
    To deploy your application across the swarm, use `docker stack deploy`.
    
    Creating network "docker_default" with the default driver
    Pulling web (vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1)...
    version1: Pulling from vividbreeze/docker-tutorial
    Digest: sha256:39e30edf7fa8fcb15112f861ff6908c17d514af3f9fcbccf78111bc811bc063d
    Status: Downloaded newer image for vividbreeze/docker-tutorial:version1
    Creating docker_web_1 ... done
    Attaching to docker_web_1

    You can see in the warning, that the deploy part of your docker-compose.yml is ignored, as docker-compose focusses on the composition of services on your local machine, and not across a swarm.

    If you want to clean up (containers, volumes, networks and other) just use

    docker-compose down

    docker-compose also allows you to build your images (docker stack won’t) in case it hasn’t been built before, e.g.

    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile.NewDataservice
    image: dataserviceNew

    You might notice on the output of many commands, that docker-compose is different from the Docker commands. So again, use docker-compose only for Docker deployments on one host or to verify a docker-compose.yml on your local machine before using it in production.

    Further Remarks

    To summarise

    • Use docker swarm to define a cluster that runs our application. In our case the swarm consisted only of one machine (no real cluster). In the next part of the tutorial, we will see that a cluster can span various physical and virtual machines.
    • Define your application in a docker-compose.yml.
    • Use docker stack to deploy your application in the swarm in a production environment or docker-compose to test and deploy your application in a development environment.

    Of course, there is more to Services, than I explained in this tutorial. However, I hope it helped as a starting point to go into more depth.