Customize the app and redploy (Engine)

Customize the app and redeploy

In this step, we’ll make a simple change to the application and redeploy it. We’ll change the focus of the poll from Cats or Dogs to .NET or Java.

In the real world, you might do this by making code changes and rebuilding to create new images, or new versions of the same images.

For our example, we’ve done this for you. We already have a different version of the application available as built images. So, all you need to do is reconfigure docker-stack.yml to point to the new images, then redeploy.

Update docker-stack.yml to reference new images

Go back to docker-stack.yml and replace the before tags on both the vote and result images to reference after tags.

Redeploy

Run the same deploy command again to run the app with the new configuration.

docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-stack.yml vote

The output will look similar to this:

docker@manager:~$ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-stack.yml vote
Updating service vote_redis (id: md73fohylg8q85aryz07852o0)
Updating service vote_db (id: gny9ieqxancnufrg1oeazz9gq)
Updating service vote_vote (id: 0ig0s4gb10q8auek9tris5i8z)
Updating service vote_result (id: lqwxjmmdhmegs2aw0a6ehipsp)
Updating service vote_worker (id: 8u4cfu60dtliz77x1o74kiwpr)
Updating service vote_visualizer (id: ya2vt9z2b4to248tccjjeqitw)

Try it out

Take the app for another test drive.

You’ll see the new voting choices for Java and .NET at <MANAGER-IP:>5000.

And the related results at <MANAGER-IP:>5001.

The visualizer at <MANAGER-IP:>8080 will show some differences, such as updates to the containers, and some services might have moved between the manager and the worker.

However, the PostgreSQL container (vote_db) and the visualizer (vote_visualizer) will still be running on the manager because of the [node.role == manager] constraints on the those services, which we did not change.

Resources

• Introducing Docker 1.13.0 blog post from Docker Core Engineering

• A deeper dive voting app walkthrough is available on Docker Labs as Deploying an app to a Swarm. The lab walkthrough provides more technical detail on deployment configuration, Compose file keys, the application, stack and services concepts, and networking.

• Source code for the Voting App (to go along with the lab walkthrough) is also available on Docker Labs.

• The images you used are available on Docker Hub. When you ran docker-stack.yml you pulled those images from Docker Hub.

• To learn how to build your own images, see Build your own image in Get Started with Docker and topics on images in Learn by example.

• For more about docker-stack.yml and the docker stack deploy command, see deploy in the Compose file reference and docker stack deploy in the Docker Engine command line reference.

• To learn more about swarm mode, start with the Swarm mode overview.