matthiasnoback / docker-swarm-workshop

An introduction to Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm workshop

Required Docker software

Prepare for this workshop by following the installation instructions for Docker Engine.

Make sure you can run the following commands, showing version numbers higher than or equal to the following:

$ docker --version
Docker version 17.03.0-ce, build 60ccb22

$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.11.2, build dfed245

$ docker-machine --version
docker-machine version 0.10.0, build 76ed2a6

Docker Hub account

If you don't have an account on hub.docker.com, create one. Then log in using the command:

docker login

Make sure you export your Docker Hub username as an environment variable:

export DOCKER_HUB_USERNAME="matthiasnoback"

You can add this to ~/.bash_profile too if you like, to make this variable available every time you start a new Bash session.

VirtualBox

Make sure you have VirtualBox installed on your machine.