Docker cluster swarm with consul

A quick post / howto  install a a swarm / consul cluster of dockers hosts and how to play with it. I will not go deep into details and lots of this from this post should and will be detailed or changed for a production environment.

How it will look like:

docker_cluster_swarm_consul
Docker cluster swarm consul

 

For the proof of the concept we will use 3 VMs in virtualbox.

Initially node1 , node2 , node3 will be identically configured. After the cluster is set up node1 will be also the management node.

Installing Node1:

[root@docker-01 server]# cat /etc/consul.d/server/config.json
{
    "bootstrap_expect": 3,
    "server": true,
    "data_dir": "/var/consul",
    "log_level": "INFO",
    "enable_syslog": false,
    "retry_join": ["172.17.0.30", "172.17.0.31", "172.17.0.32"],
    "client_addr": "0.0.0.0"
}
  • run consul agent
/usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-dir="/etc/consul.d/server/config.json" -ui-dir="/var/www/html">>/var/log/consul.log 2>&1 &
  • join the node in swarm cluster:

 

docker run -d swarm join --addr=172.17.0.30:2375 consul://172.17.0.30:8500/swarm

 

  • run the registration in consul service

 

docker run -d --name regdock01 -h docker01 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock progrium/registrator consul://172.17.0.30:8500

 

  • run the swarm management:

 

docker run -d -p 3333:2375 swarm manage consul://172.17.0.30:8500/swarm

 

Installing Node2:

  • Install centos7
  • Disable firewald
  • Install docker from repo. Then update docker to 1.6.2 ( manually override /usr/bin/docker with the one from docker.io )  ( wget  https://get.docker.com/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-latest )
  • Download and install consul (  wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.2_linux_amd64.zip )
  • Add consul configuration file
    [root@docker-02 server]# cat /etc/consul.d/server/config.json
    {
        "bootstrap_expect": 3,
        "server": true,
        "data_dir": "/var/consul",
        "log_level": "INFO",
        "enable_syslog": false,
        "retry_join": ["172.17.0.30", "172.17.0.31", "172.17.0.32"],
        "client_addr": "0.0.0.0"
    }
  • run consul agent
    /usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-dir="/etc/consul.d/server/config.json" >>/var/log/consul.log 2>&1 &
  • join the node in swarm cluster
    docker run -d swarm join --addr=172.17.0.31:2375 consul://172.17.0.31:8500/swarm
  • run the registration in consul service
    docker run -d --name regdock02 -h docker02 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock progrium/registrator consul://172.17.0.31:8500

Installing Node3:

  • Install centos7
  • Disable firewald
  • Install docker from repo. Then update docker to 1.6.2 ( manually override /usr/bin/docker with the one from docker.io )  ( wget  https://get.docker.com/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-latest )
  • Download and install consul (  wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.2_linux_amd64.zip )
  • Add consul configuration file
    [root@docker-03 server]# cat /etc/consul.d/server/config.json
    {
        "bootstrap_expect": 3,
        "server": true,
        "data_dir": "/var/consul",
        "log_level": "INFO",
        "enable_syslog": false,
        "retry_join": ["172.17.0.30", "172.17.0.31", "172.17.0.32"],
        "client_addr": "0.0.0.0"
    }
  • Run consul agent
    /usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-dir="/etc/consul.d/server/config.json" >>/var/log/consul.log 2>&1 &
  • Join the node in swarm cluster
    docker run -d swarm join --addr=172.17.0.32:2375 consul://172.17.0.32:8500/swarm
  • Run the registration in consul service
    docker run -d --name regdock03 -h docker03 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock progrium/registrator consul://172.17.0.32:8500

Managing / viewing / running containers in cluster:

 

# show running containers in the cluster
docker -H tcp://172.17.0.30:3333 ps
# show cluster nodes infos
docker -H tcp://172.17.0.30:3333 info
# run containers in the cluster:
docker -H tcp://172.17.0.30:3333 run -d --name www1 -p 81:80 nginx
docker -H tcp://172.17.0.30:3333 run -d --name www2 -p 81:80 nginx
docker -H tcp://172.17.0.30:3333 run -d --name www3 -p 81:80 nginx

 

Consul web interface:

 

consul-web-ui
Consul web UI after install and deploy of 3 nginx containers

 

 

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