Swarm

We’ve seen now that we can run co-located and coupled services on Docker Swarm. This post shows you how to use templates to extend your services in a common way.

If we can run co-located containers on Docker Swarm mode, what can we use them for? This post goes through a few made-up example stacks, and explains the setup and the configuration of the components within the sort-of pods.

Emulating Kubernetes pods on Docker Swarm mode.

The final post in the series describes the various Swarm stacks I now have in GitHub, and explains the workflows around them.

A recent Docker update came with a small but important change for service secrets and configs, that enables a much easier way to manage and update them when deploying Swarm stacks.

Let me explain the configuration method I use for my services and HTTP endpoints. Spoiler: it’s Docker and it’s automated.

This third post in the series explains how I extended my stack to multiple servers with Docker Swarm.