Building a Docker Swarm with Photon OS
I’ve decided to take a look at our new vFile docker volume plugin. If you haven’t heard, vFile volume plugin for Docker provides simultaneous persistent volume access between hosts in the same Docker Swarm cluster for the base volume plugin service such as VDVS [vSphere Docker Volume Service], with zero configuration effort, along with high availability, scalability, and load balancing support. As you can see, this has a requirement on Docker Swarm. Since I hadn’t set this up in a while, I decided to set it up on a recent release of Photon OS, but ran into a small issue.
I’m using the following builds of Photon OS using photon-custom-hw11-2.0-31bb961.ova. If I check the /etc/os-release file, I see the following:
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# cat /etc/os-release NAME="VMware Photon OS" VERSION="2.0" ID=photon VERSION_ID=2.0 PRETTY_NAME="VMware Photon OS/Linux" ANSI_COLOR="1;34" HOME_URL="https://vmware.github.io/photon/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/vmware/photon/issues"
I am also using quite a recent version of docker:
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# docker version Client: Version: 17.06.0-ce API version: 1.30 Go version: go1.8.1 Git commit: 02c1d87 Built: Fri Sep 29 05:57:21 2017 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Server: Version: 17.06.0-ce API version: 1.30 (minimum version 1.12) Go version: go1.8.1 Git commit: 02c1d87 Built: Fri Sep 29 05:58:18 2017 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 Experimental: false root@photon-machine [ ~ ]#
To create a Docker Swarm, I need to first initialize one node as my master and join other nodes as workers. The command to create a master is as follows:
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# docker swarm init Swarm initialized: current node (1nmqf02m5mkv4yh3ecjqsjjs6) is now a manager. To add a worker to this swarm, run the following command: docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-1dg2jdht61fxtehb906xyhdh1rubl7n46ffbyh1b5uj8t24kfv-2veb1hbc5v8l097jbi3ufle4a 10.27.51.47:2377 To add a manager to this swarm, run 'docker swarm join-token manager' and follow the instructions. root@photon-machine [ ~ ]#
That seems pretty straight forward. Now, if I login to my worker VM, I should be able to join it as a worker using the command above.
root@photon-worker [ ~ ]# docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-1dg2jdht61fxtehb906xyhdh1rubl7n46ffbyh1b5uj8t24kfv-2veb1hbc5v8l097jbi3ufle4a 10.27.51.47:2377 Error response from daemon: Timeout was reached before node was joined. The attempt to join the swarm will continue in the background. Use the "docker info" command to see the crrent swarm status of your node.
I eventually traced this to a firewall port issue. I simply needed to open port 2377 on the master to allow the slave to connect.
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 2377 -j ACCEPT
Now I can successfully join the worker to the master:
root@photon-worker [ ~ ]# docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-4hyqxyt8z15lhdoyc51jqb2i4ctnv0u76m7sqw8msmgi04816b-7kurar4w68v7p4zym73ew8rp0 10.27.51.47:2377 This node joined a swarm as a worker.
We can run a docker info command to check the status of the swarm (this output from worker):
root@photon-worker [ ~ ]# docker info Containers: 0 Running: 0 Paused: 0 Stopped: 0 Images: 13 Server Version: 17.06.0-ce Storage Driver: overlay2 Backing Filesystem: extfs Supports d_type: true Native Overlay Diff: true Logging Driver: json-file Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Plugins: Volume: local Network: bridge host macvlan null overlay Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file logentries splunk syslog Swarm: active NodeID: rikcngnbtuerovom8z13ghlk0 Is Manager: false Node Address: 10.27.51.17 Manager Addresses: 10.27.51.47:2377 Runtimes: runc Default Runtime: runc Init Binary: docker-init containerd version: cfb82a876ecc11b5ca0977d1733adbe58599088a runc version: 2d41c047c83e09a6d61d464906feb2a2f3c52aa4 init version: 949e6fa Security Options: seccomp Profile: default Kernel Version: 4.9.60-1.ph2-esx Operating System: VMware Photon OS/Linux OSType: linux Architecture: x86_64 CPUs: 4 Total Memory: 7.792GiB Name: photon-machine ID: R7DL:MSZ4:MCAE:SKFS:2HN3:ZZOV:2TJC:T757:H5DM:DRWV:QC6P:YE2R Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker Debug Mode (client): false Debug Mode (server): false No Proxy: 10.27.51.47 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/ Experimental: false Insecure Registries: 127.0.0.0/8 Live Restore Enabled: false
To prove that Docker is working in Swarm mode, we can launch a service with just one replica instance.
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# docker service create --replicas 1 --name helloworld alpine ping docker.com
To check on the service, use:
root@photon-machine [ ~ ]# docker service ls ID NAME MODE REPLICAS IMAGE PORTS pnmztlolpl2u helloworld replicated 1/1 alpine:latest root@photon-machine [ ~ ]#
The container that provides the service can appear on both the master and the worker. Check with docker ps:
root@photon-worker [ ~ ]# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
38b72a221125 alpine:latest "ping docker.com" 5 seconds ago Up Less than a second helloworld.1.uoth5a14e4tacx7l8pxr6jaax
root@photon-worker [ ~ ]#
Great – that is my Docker Swarm up and running. Now to take a closer look at vFile. Watch this space.
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