Swarm

Description

The following example creates two ZEO instances which connects to the ZEO server via a dedicated network (zeo-net).

Note

This example assumes that Swarm manager node is also the load balancing node.

If more nodes are added make sure that ZEO server has a constraint to run only on a specific node. Otherwise you might loose your site temporary when ZEO server migrates to another node (and new volume is created there).

This can be mitigated by using distributed volume driver on mounting the zeo-data from NFS.

Load balancer (Traefik) and ZEO instances connect via their own network (traefik-net).

Only Traefik exposes its ports (80/TCP and 8080/TCP).

Traefik monitoring interface is at port 8080 and Plone trafik goes through the port 80.

You need to be running Docker Engine 1.13 on newer for this example to work. First you need to put Docker in swarm mode if it is not already:

docker swarm init

Create plone-compose.yml with following content:

--
version: "3"
services:
  traefik:
    image: library/traefik:latest
    command: --docker --docker.swarmmode --docker.domain=traefik --docker.watch --web
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "8080:8080"
    networks:
      - traefik-net
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    deploy:
      mode: global
      placement:
        constraints:
          - node.role == manager
  instance:
    image: library/plone:latest
    hostname: plone
    networks:
      - traefik-net
      - zeo-net
    environment:
      - ZEO_ADDRESS=zeo:8080
    deploy:
      replicas: 2
      labels:
        traefik.docker.network: traefik-net
        traefik.port: 8080
        traefik.frontend.rule: Host:plone.traefik
        traefik.backend.loadbalancer.method: drr
  zeo:
    hostname: zeo
    image: library/plone:latest
    command: zeo
    volumes:
      - zeo-data:/data
    networks:
      - zeo-net
    deploy:
      mode: global

volumes:
    zeo-data:

networks:
    zeo-net:
    traefik-net:

Deploy the stack with following command:

docker deploy plone --compose-file plone-compose.yml

Add the following to you /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1     plone.traefik

Open your browser to http://plone.traefik/ and create a Plone site (use the default values).

After the site is created you can modify the traefik.frontend.rule label so that Traefik loads the site directly from the domain root:

traefik.frontend.rule: Host:plone.traefik;AddPrefix:/VirtualHostBase/http/plone.traefik:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot

Redeploy the configuration with the same command as before:

docker deploy plone --compose-file plone-compose.yml