Labs

The following labs will help you deploy a simple demo application on top of a Docker Swarm cluster to review the most important features provided by this container orchestrator. The code for the labs is available in this book’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Containers-for-Developers-Handbook.git. Ensure you have the latest revision available by simply executing git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Containers-for-Developers-Handbook.git to download all its content or git pull if you have already downloaded the repository before. Additional labs are included in GitHub. All commands and content used in these labs will be located inside the Containers-for-Developers-Handbook/Chapter7 directory.

We will start by deploying our own Docker Swarm cluster.

Deploying a single-node Docker Swarm cluster

In this lab, we will create a one-node Docker Swarm cluster using the Docker Desktop environment.

Important note

Deploying a single-node...