Docker Universal Control Plane

Docker UCP is the enterprise-grade cluster management solution that allows you to manage the Docker containers from a single platform. It also allows you to manage thousands of nodes, which can be managed and monitored with a graphical UI.

UCP has two important components:

  • Controller: It manages the cluster and persists the cluster configurations
  • Node: Multiple nodes can be added to cluster in order to run the containers

UCP can be installed using the sandbox installation on top of Mac OS X or Windows system using Docker Toolbox. Installation consists of a UCP controller and one or more hosts that will be added as nodes in the UCP cluster using Docker Toolbox.

A prerequisite for Docker Toolbox is that it is required to ...

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