Deploy and Manage an App on Swarm

Swarm nodes can run regular containers, but they can also run enhanced containers called services. Each service takes a single container definition and augments it with cloud-native features such as self-healing, scaling, and automated rollouts and rollbacks.

In this lesson, we'll deploy a simple web server as a swarm service and see how to scale it, perform rollouts, and delete it.

Creating services

Swarm lets you create and manage services in two ways: