Setting up a swarm cluster

There are a couple of ways of setting up a swarm cluster. You can create a cluster using any virtualized environments like Hyper-V, virtual box. The number of hosts running in a swarm cluster will be restricted to the host's CPU and memory capacity. Traditionally on premise environments are setup using multiple physical nodes. The second way of setting up swarm environment is by using hosted environments like Azure or AWS. In this section, we will learn to setup a hybrid cluster with Linux and Windows container host. On Azure there are two approaches for creating a swarm cluster, one way is to use any pre-defined ARM template like the one available here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/docker-swarm-cluster.
This template deploys a swarm cluster on your Azure subscription with three swarm managers and a specified number of swarm nodes in the specified...