A Docker Swarm is a collection of node working together in a cluster. A Swarm can be made up of manager and worker node. As with most clustering solutions the recommendation is to try and avoid having an even number of nodes, to prevent issues with voting rights and cluster quorum.
The diagram depicts how a Docker Swarm looks.
The command below should be run on the first node which you want to become a Swarm Manager, its possible (and recommended) to have more than one Swarm Manager. However, when you initialise the cluster the first node becomes the "manager leader" which is basically the node which conducts and manages the orchestration tasks of the cluster.
docker swarm init --advertise-addr "pirate ip of cluster manager node"
The -advertise-addr switch tells the cluster to be provisioned with the correct address. In many examples its possible to leave this out and the docker swarm command assumes the private address of the host anyway. It's more important to be explicit if the host belongs to multiple networks, perhaps in a public cloud provider where the node might have multiple interfaces on different network segments.
The following command can be run to check to see if the cluster has provisioned correctly.
docker node ls
After running the docker swarm init command, it will generate string which can be used to join worker nodes to your Swarm cluster.
The diagram depicts how a Docker Swarm looks.
The command below should be run on the first node which you want to become a Swarm Manager, its possible (and recommended) to have more than one Swarm Manager. However, when you initialise the cluster the first node becomes the "manager leader" which is basically the node which conducts and manages the orchestration tasks of the cluster.
docker swarm init --advertise-addr "pirate ip of cluster manager node"
The -advertise-addr switch tells the cluster to be provisioned with the correct address. In many examples its possible to leave this out and the docker swarm command assumes the private address of the host anyway. It's more important to be explicit if the host belongs to multiple networks, perhaps in a public cloud provider where the node might have multiple interfaces on different network segments.
The following command can be run to check to see if the cluster has provisioned correctly.
docker node ls
After running the docker swarm init command, it will generate string which can be used to join worker nodes to your Swarm cluster.
