In a previous step of the tutorial, you scaled the number of instances of a service. In this part of the tutorial, you deploy a service based on the Redis 3.0.6 container tag. Then you upgrade the service to use the Redis 3.0.7 container image using rolling updates.

  1. If you haven't already, open a terminal and ssh into the machine where you run your manager node. For example, the tutorial uses a machine named manager1.

  2. Deploy your Redis tag to the swarm and configure the swarm with a 10 second update delay. Note that the following example shows an older Redis tag:

    ```console $ docker service create \ --replicas 3 \ --name redis \ --update-delay 10s \ redis:3.0.6

    0u6a4s31ybk7yw2wyvtikmu50 ```

    You configure the rolling update policy at service deployment time.

    The --update-delay flag configures the time delay between updates to a service task or sets of tasks. You can describe the time T as a combination of the number of seconds Ts, minutes Tm, or hours Th. So 10m30s indicates a 10 minute 30 second delay.

    By default the scheduler updates 1 task at a time. You can pass the --update-parallelism flag to configure the maximum number of service tasks that the scheduler updates simultaneously.

    By default, when an update to an individual task returns a state of RUNNING, the scheduler schedules another task to update until all tasks are updated. If at any time during an update a task returns FAILED, the scheduler pauses the update. You can control the behavior using the --update-failure-action flag for docker service create or docker service update.

  3. Inspect the redis service:

    ```console $ docker service inspect --pretty redis

    ID: 0u6a4s31ybk7yw2wyvtikmu50 Name: redis Service Mode: Replicated Replicas: 3 Placement: Strategy: Spread UpdateConfig: Parallelism: 1 Delay: 10s ContainerSpec: Image: redis:3.0.6 Resources: Endpoint Mode: vip ```

  4. Now you can update the container image for redis. The swarm manager applies the update to nodes according to the UpdateConfig policy:

    console $ docker service update --image redis:3.0.7 redis redis

    The scheduler applies rolling updates as follows by default:

    • Stop the first task.
    • Schedule update for the stopped task.
    • Start the container for the updated task.
    • If the update to a task returns RUNNING, wait for the specified delay period then start the next task.
    • If, at any time during the update, a task returns FAILED, pause the update.

  5. Run docker service inspect --pretty redis to see the new image in the desired state:

    ```console $ docker service inspect --pretty redis

    ID: 0u6a4s31ybk7yw2wyvtikmu50 Name: redis Service Mode: Replicated Replicas: 3 Placement: Strategy: Spread UpdateConfig: Parallelism: 1 Delay: 10s ContainerSpec: Image: redis:3.0.7 Resources: Endpoint Mode: vip ```

    The output of service inspect shows if your update paused due to failure:

    ```console $ docker service inspect --pretty redis

    ID: 0u6a4s31ybk7yw2wyvtikmu50 Name: redis ...snip... Update status: State: paused Started: 11 seconds ago Message: update paused due to failure or early termination of task 9p7ith557h8ndf0ui9s0q951b ...snip... ```

    To restart a paused update run docker service update <SERVICE-ID>. For example:

    console $ docker service update redis

    To avoid repeating certain update failures, you may need to reconfigure the service by passing flags to docker service update.

  6. Run docker service ps <SERVICE-ID> to watch the rolling update:

    ```console $ docker service ps redis

    NAME IMAGE NODE DESIRED STATE CURRENT STATE ERROR redis.1.dos1zffgeofhagnve8w864fco redis:3.0.7 worker1 Running Running 37 seconds _ redis.1.88rdo6pa52ki8oqx6dogf04fh redis:3.0.6 worker2 Shutdown Shutdown 56 seconds ago redis.2.9l3i4j85517skba5o7tn5m8g0 redis:3.0.7 worker2 Running Running About a minute _ redis.2.66k185wilg8ele7ntu8f6nj6i redis:3.0.6 worker1 Shutdown Shutdown 2 minutes ago redis.3.egiuiqpzrdbxks3wxgn8qib1g redis:3.0.7 worker1 Running Running 48 seconds _ redis.3.ctzktfddb2tepkr45qcmqln04 redis:3.0.6 mmanager1 Shutdown Shutdown 2 minutes ago ```

    Before Swarm updates all of the tasks, you can see that some are running redis:3.0.6 while others are running redis:3.0.7. The output above shows the state once the rolling updates are done.

Next steps#

Next, you'll learn how to drain a node in the swarm.

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