How to create a Docker swarm | Linux Today

How to create a Docker swarm

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Jack Wallen Tech Republic
Jun 13, 2017

If you’ve worked with Docker containers, you already understand how powerful they can be. But did you know you can exponentially up the power of Docker by creating a cluster of Docker hosts, called a Docker swarm? Believe it or not, this process is really simple. All you need is one machine to serve as a Docker swarm manager and a few Docker hosts to join the swarm as nodes.

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