How Does Docker Swarm Work?
When you want to deploy a container in the swarm first, you have to launch services. Service consists of multiple containers of the same image. These services are deployed inside a node so to deploy a swarm at least one node has to be deployed. As you see below diagram the manager node is responsible for the allocation of the task, dispatch the tasks, and schedule the tasks. API in the manager is the medium between the manager node and the worker node to communicate with each other by using the HTTP protocol. The service of one cluster can be used by the other. All the execution of the task is performed by the worker node.
Introduction to Docker Swarm Mode
Docker swarm is a container orchestration tool. Swarm Mode in Docker was introduced in version 1.12 which enables the ability to deploy multiple containers on multiple Docker hosts. For this Docker uses an overlay network for the service discovery and with a built-in load balancer for scaling the services. One of the key advantages of docker swarm is that the configuration of the docker services such as volume and network can be modified without the need to manually restart the service Docker will update the configuration, stop the service tasks with the out-of-date configuration, and create new ones matching the desired configuration.
Table of Content
- What is Docker and Docker Container?
- What is Docker Swarm?
- What are the Task and Service in Docker Swarm?
- How Does Docker Swarm Work?
- Docker Swarm Init
- Docker Swarm Architecture
- Features of Docker Swarm
- What is Docker Swarm Used For?
- Different Modes of Docker Swarm
- How to Install and Setup Docker Swarm on AWS? A Step-By-Step Guide
- How to Setup Docker Swarm Mode?
- How to Create a Task in Docker Swarm Cluster?
- Getting Started With Swarm Mode
- What is Stack in Docker Swarm?
- Docker Swarm Mode Key Concepts
- Docker Swarm Filters
- Docker Swarm Mode CLI Commands
- Docker Container vs Docker Swarm
- Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes
- Docker Service vs Docker Task
- Benefits of Docker Swarm