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+"/engine/swarm/how-swarm-mode-works/"
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+title = "How services work"
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+description = "How swarm mode services work"
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+keywords = ["docker, container, cluster, swarm mode, node"]
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+advisory = "rc"
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+[menu.main]
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+identifier="how-services-work"
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+parent="how-swarm-works"
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+weight="4"
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+<![end-metadata]-->
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+# How services work
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+
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+To deploy an application image when Docker Engine is in swarm mode, you create a
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+service. Frequently a service will be the image for a microservice within the
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+context of some larger application. Examples of services might include an HTTP
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+server, a database, or any other type of executable program that you wish to run
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+in a distributed environment.
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+When you create a service, you specify which container image to use and which
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+commands to execute inside running containers. You also define options for the
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+service including:
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+
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+* the port where the swarm will make the service available outside the swarm
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+* an overlay network for the service to connect to other services in the swarm
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+* CPU and memory limits and reservations
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+* a rolling update policy
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+* the number of replicas of the image to run in the swarm
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+
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+## Services, tasks, and containers
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+
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+When you deploy the service to the swarm, the swarm manager accepts your service
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+definition as the desired state for the service. Then it schedules the service
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+on nodes in the swarm as one or more replica tasks. The tasks run independently
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+of each other on nodes in the swarm.
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+For example, imagine you want to load balance between three instances of an HTTP
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+listener. The diagram below shows an HTTP listener service with three replicas.
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+Each of the three instances of the listener is a task in the swarm.
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+
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+
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+A container is an isolated process. In the swarm mode model, each task invokes
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+exactly one container. A task is analogous to a “slot” where the scheduler
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+places a container. Once the container is live, the scheduler recognizes that
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+the task is in a running state. If the container fails health checks or
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+terminates, the task terminates.
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+
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+## Tasks and scheduling
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+
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+A task is the atomic unit of scheduling within a swarm. When you declare a
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+desired service state by creating or updating a service, the orchestrator
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+realizes the desired state by scheduling tasks. For instance, the you define a
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+service that instructs the orchestrator to keep three instances of a HTTP
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+listener running at all times. The orchestrator responds by creating three
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+tasks. Each task is a slot that the scheduler fills by spawning a container. The
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+container is the instantiation of the task. If a HTTP listener task subsequently
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+fails its health check or crashes, the orchestrator creates a new replica task
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+that spawns a new container.
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+
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+A task is a one-directional mechanism. It progresses monotonically through a
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+series of states: assigned, prepared, running, etc. If the task fails the
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+scheduler removes the task and its container and then creates a new task to
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+replace it according to the desired state specified by the service.
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+
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+The underlying logic of Docker swarm mode is a general purpose scheduler and
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+orchestrator. The service and task abstractions themselves are unaware of the
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+containers they implement. Hypothetically, you could implement other types of
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+tasks such as virtual machine tasks or non-containerized process tasks. The
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+scheduler and orchestrator are agnostic about they type of task. However, the
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+current version of Docker only supports container tasks.
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+
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+The diagram below shows how swarm mode accepts service create requests and
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+schedules tasks to worker nodes.
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+
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+
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+## Replicated and global services
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+
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+There are two types of service deployments, replicated and global.
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+For a replicated service, you specify the number of identical tasks you want to
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+run. For example, you decide to deploy an HTTP service with three replicas, each
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+serving the same content.
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+
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+A global service is a service that runs one task on every node. There is no
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+pre-specified number of tasks. Each time you add a node to the swarm, the
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+orchestrator creates a task and the scheduler assigns the task to the new node.
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+Good candidates for global services are monitoring agents, an anti-virus
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+scanners or other types of containers that you want to run on every node in the
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+swarm.
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+
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+The diagram below shows a three-service replica in yellow and a global service
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+in gray.
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