Set up multi-host networking

Question

I have one manager and 2 worker nodes.

machine1- manager and contains consoul

machine2- worker1

machine3- worker2

and i need to run docker-compose from any other separate machine.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

In machine1 initialize the docker swarm

docker swarm init --advertise-addr IP_address

You'll get this:

Add the docker swarm join --token command in your machine2 and machine3.

Now you have a 3-node swarm. Back on Machine 1 you can create a multi-host overlay network:

docker network create -d overlay my-app

And then you run workloads in the network by deploying services.