Deploying applications

How to deploy applications on your swarm

  • Use an existing project, or create a new project based on one of the examples
  • Add a docker-compose.yml file in the root of your project: example docker-compose.yml
  • Add a git remote to your local project using git remote add swarm git@swarm:my-app
  • Commit your files: git add . && git commit -m 'initial'
  • Push to the swarm repository: git push swarm master
  • Wait for Traefik to update it's configuration and visit your app at https://my-app.mydomain.com

Example application setup

This guide describes how to deploy a simple Python web server using a Redis backend on your swarm.

Create a new project locally:

# Create project folder
mkdir my-app
cd my-app
# Create files
touch app.py requirements.txt Dockerfile docker-compose.yml .env
# Initialize a local git repository and add a new remote
git init
git remote add origin git@swarm:my-app

Code a basic Python web server in app.py:

from flask import Flask
from redis import Redis
import socket
app = Flask(__name__)
redis = Redis(host='redis', port=6379)
@app.route('/')
def hello():
count = redis.incr('hits')
host_name = socket.gethostname()
host_ip = socket.gethostbyname(host_name)
return '<h1>Hello World!</h1>' \
'I have been seen %s times<br>' \
'HostName = %s<br>' \
'IP = %s<br>' \
'Try refreshing the page.' % (count, host_name, host_ip)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, debug=True)

Add the application dependencies to requirements.txt:

flask
redis

Describe the build steps in a Dockerfile:

FROM python:3.4-alpine
ADD . /code
WORKDIR /code
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
CMD ["python", "app.py"]

Describe the application stack in a docker-compose.yml file including the desired hostname for the frontend service and internal container port to expose:

version: '3.7'
services:
frontend:
image: ${SWARMLET_REGISTRY}/my-app
build: .
networks:
- my-app-private-network
- traefik-public
deploy:
mode: replicated
replicas: 3
placement:
preferences:
- spread: node.id
labels:
- traefik.enable=true
- traefik.port=8000
- traefik.frontend.rule=Host:my-app.${DOMAIN}
- traefik.tags=traefik-public
- traefik.docker.network=traefik-public
- traefik.redirectorservice.frontend.entryPoints=http
- traefik.redirectorservice.frontend.redirect.entryPoint=https
- traefik.webservice.frontend.entryPoints=https
redis:
image: redis:alpine
networks:
- my-app-private-network
networks:
my-app-private-network:
traefik-public:
external: true

Define environment variables in .env:

DOMAIN=mydomain.com

Create a new commit and deploy the application to the swarm using git push:

git add .
git commit -m 'initial'
git push origin master

Wait for Traefik to update it's configuration and visit your app at https://my-app.mydomain.com!

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