Posts tagged with swarm

Managing Secrets in Docker Swarm

Docker 1.13 was released just a few days ago (blog post here). With it came several improvements to Docker Swarm. One highly anticipated improvement (at least by me anyways) is secrets management. In this post, we'll see how to add secrets to a swarm and how to make them available to running services.

Create a Docker 1.12+ Swarm using docker-machine

In case you missed it, DockerCon 2016 was amazing! There were several great features announced, with most of it stemming from orchestration is now built-in. You get automatic load balancing (the routing mesh is crazy cool!), easy roll-outs (with healthcheck support), and government-level security by default (which is crazy hard to do by yourself).

In case you're a little confused on how to spin up a mini-cluster, this post will show you how. It's pretty easy to do!