Make sure you have published the
friendlyhello
image you created by pushing it to a registry. We’ll use that shared image here.Be sure your image works as a deployed container. Run this command, slotting in your info for
username
,repo
, andtag
:docker run -p 80:80 username/repo:tag
, then visithttp://localhost/
.
scale our application and enable load-balancing. To do this, we must go one level up in the hierarchy of a distributed application: the service.
- Stack
- Services (you are here)
- Container (covered in part 2)
About services
In a distributed application, different pieces of the app are called “services.”
For example, if you imagine a video sharing site, it probably includes a service for storing application data in a database, a service for video transcoding in the background after a user uploads something, a service for the front-end, and so on.
Services are really just “containers in production.”
A service only runs one image, but it codifies the way that image runs—what ports it should use, how many replicas of the container should run so the service has the capacity it needs, and so on.
Scaling a service changes the number of container instances running that piece of software, assigning more computing resources to the service in the process.
Luckily it’s very easy to define, run, and scale services with the Docker platform – just write a docker-compose.yml
file.
docker-compose.yml
file
A docker-compose.yml
file is a YAML file that defines how Docker containers should behave in production.
Be sure you have pushed the image you created in Part 2 to a registry, and update this .yml
by replacingusername/repo:tag
with your image details.
version: "3"
services:
web:
# replace username/repo:tag with your name and image details
image: username/repo:tag
deploy:
replicas: 5
resources:
limits:
cpus: "0.1"
memory: 50M
restart_policy:
condition: on-failure
ports:
- "80:80"
networks:
- webnet
networks:
webnet:
This docker-compose.yml
file tells Docker to do the following:
Pull the image we uploaded in step 2 from the registry.
Run 5 instances of that image as a service called
web
, limiting each one to use, at most, 10% of the CPU (across all cores), and 50MB of RAM.Immediately restart containers if one fails.
Map port 80 on the host to
web
’s port 80.Instruct
web
’s containers to share port 80 via a load-balanced network calledwebnet
. (Internally, the containers themselves will publish toweb
’s port 80 at an ephemeral port.)Define the
webnet
network with the default settings (which is a load-balanced overlay network).
Run new load-balanced app
Before we can use the docker stack deploy
command we’ll first run:
docker swarm init
If you don’t run docker swarm init
you’ll get an error that “this node is not a swarm manager.”
Now let’s run it. You have to give your app a name. Here, it is set to getstartedlab
:
docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml getstartedlab
Our single service stack is running 5 container instances of our deployed image on one host
Get the service ID for the one service in our application:
docker service ls
You’ll see output for theweb
service, prepended with your app name.
If you named it the same as shown in this example, the name will begetstartedlab_web
.
The service ID is listed as well, along with the number of replicas, image name, and exposed ports. A single container running in a service is called a task.
Tasks are given unique IDs that numerically increment, up to the number ofreplicas
you defined indocker-compose.yml
. List the tasks for your service:
docker service ps getstartedlab_web
Tasks also show up if you just list all the containers on your system, though that will not be filtered by service:
docker container ls -q
You can run curl -4 http://localhost
several times in a row, or go to that URL in your browser and hit refresh a few times.
Either way, you’ll see the container ID change, demonstrating the load-balancing; with each request, one of the 5 tasks is chosen, in a round-robin fashion, to respond. The container IDs will match your output from the previous command (docker container ls -q
).
Running Windows 10?
Windows 10 PowerShell should already have curl
available, but if not you can grab a Linux terminal emulater like Git BASH, or download wget for Windowswhich is very similar.
Slow response times?
Depending on your environment’s networking configuration, it may take up to 30 seconds for the containers to respond to HTTP requests. This is not indicative of Docker or swarm performance, but rather an unmet Redis dependency that we will address later in the tutorial. For now, the visitor counter isn’t working for the same reason; we haven’t yet added a service to persist data.
Scale the app
You can scale the app by changing the replicas
value in docker-compose.yml
, saving the change, and re-running the docker stack deploy
command:
docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml getstartedlab
Docker will do an in-place update, no need to tear the stack down first or kill any containers.
Now, re-run docker container ls -q
to see the deployed instances reconfigured. If you scaled up the replicas, more tasks, and hence, more containers, are started.
Swarm介绍
Take down the app and the swarm
Take the app down with
docker stack rm
:
docker stack rm getstartedlab
- Take down the swarm.
docker swarm leave --force
Compose files like this are used to define applications with Docker, and can be uploaded to cloud providers using Docker Cloud, or on any hardware or cloud provider you choose with Docker Enterprise Edition.
To recap, while typing docker run
is simple enough, the true implementation of a container in production is running it as a service. Services codify a container’s behavior in a Compose file, and this file can be used to scale, limit, and redeploy our app. Changes to the service can be applied in place, as it runs, using the same command that launched the service: docker stack deploy
.
docker stack ls # List stacks or apps
docker stack deploy -c <composefile> <appname> # Run the specified Compose file
docker service ls # List running services associated with an app
docker service ps <service> # List tasks associated with an app
docker inspect <task or container> # Inspect task or container
docker container ls -q # List container IDs
docker stack rm <appname> # Tear down an application
docker swarm leave --force # Take down a single node swarm from the manager