Two week back, I travelled to Jaipur, around 1000+ miles from Bangalore for delivering one of Docker Session. I was invited as a Guest Speaker for “IIEC Connect” event conducted by LinuxWorld Inc. held in GD Badaya Auditorium, Jaipur which accommodated around 500-600+ engineering students.
It was an amazing experience with dozens of questions at the end of the session. The session lasted for 3 hours and I was just amazed when 90% hands got raised when I asked “How many of you know about Docker?”. I compiled 120+ slides for this session but skipped immediately to advanced talk so as to keep the audience intact. I talked about how industry is using Docker with some real time in-house projects like Pico, OpenUSM & Docker in the data centre.
During the end of the session, I showcased an interesting demonstration around monitoring Docker Swarm cluster using Blinkt! Pironomi LED. It was a great opportunity for me to excite the students showcasing such a cool project around Docker containers running on Raspberry Pi. Under this blog post, I will talk about how to achieve it in a detailed way.
Pre-requisite:
| Items | Link | Cost |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Model B | Buy | 2849 INR |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Model B 4-layer Dog Bone Stack Clear Case Box Enclosure | Buy | 4772 INR |
| Pimoroni Blinkt! | Buy | 749 INR |
| Raspberry Pi 3 Heat Sink Set | Buy | 159 INR |
- A Raspberry Pi Node Cluster Stack
- Blinkt
Blinkt! is an eight super-bright RGB LED indicators that are ideal for adding visual notifications to your Raspberry Pi. Inspired by OpenFaas founder ~ Alex Ellis’ work with his Raspberry Pi Zero Docker Cluster, Pironomi developed these boards for him to use as status indicators. Blinkt! offers eight APA102 pixels in the smallest (and cheapest) form factor to plug straight onto your Raspberry Pi.
Features
- Eight APA102 RGB LEDs
- Individually controllable pixels
- Sits directly on top of your Pi in a tiny footprint
- Fits inside most Pi cases
- Doesn’t interfere with PWM audio
- Blinkt! pinout
- Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
- Python library
- Comes fully assembled
Installing Docker on all 3 Nodes – 1 Manager and 2 worker nodes
Follow link to install Docker 18.09 on all the Raspberry Node cluster
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker version
Client:
Version: 18.09.0
API version: 1.39
Go version: go1.10.4
Git commit: 4d60db4
Built: Wed Nov 7 00:57:21 2018
OS/Arch: linux/arm
Experimental: false
Server: Docker Engine - Community
Engine:
Version: 18.09.0
API version: 1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.10.4
Git commit: 4d60db4
Built: Wed Nov 7 00:17:57 2018
OS/Arch: linux/arm
Experimental: false
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# Setting up Swarm Manager Node
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker swarm init --advertise-addr 192.168.43.134 --listen-addr 192.168.43.134:2377
Swarm initialized: current node (j7i394an31gsevxt3fndzvum5) is now a manager.
To add a worker to this swarm, run the following command:
docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-1zbsutds2u5gk5qwx0qbf95uccogrjx1ukszxxxxx-bcptng4inxxxldvvx17tn2l 192.168.43.134:2377
To add a manager to this swarm, run 'docker swarm join-token manager' and follow the instructions.
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-1zbsutds2u5gk5qwx0qbf95uccogrjx1ukszysmxxxbcptng4invy1abldvvx17tn2l 192.168.43.134:2377
This node joined a swarm as a worker.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ Listing the Nodes
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker node ls
ID HOSTNAME STATUS AVAILABILITY MANAGER STATUS ENGINE VERSION
ijnqkk7vybzts7ohgt63fteoo raspberrypi Ready Active 18.09.0
j7i394an31gsevxt3fndzvum5 * raspberrypi Ready Active Leader 18.09.0
let43cp6uoankngeg5lmd91mn raspberrypi Ready Active 18.09.0
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# Running Monitor Service
A special credit to Docker Captain Stefan Schere and his work for building these piece of Docker container.
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service create --name monitor --mode global --restart-condition any --mount type=bind,src=/sys,dst=/sys --mount type=bind,src=/var/run/docker.sock,dst=/var/run/docker.sock stefanscherer/monitor:1.1.0
kvgvohexsc2e8yapol0ulwq5q
overall progress: 3 out of 3 tasks
ijnqkk7vybzt: running [==================================================>]
let43cp6uoan: running [==================================================>]
j7i394an31gs: running [==================================================>]
verify: Service converged
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service create --name whoami stefanscherer/whoami:1.1.0
jd5e5hlswu8ruxgfhgbwtww84
overall progress: 1 out of 1 tasks
1/1: running [==================================================>]
verify: Service converged Scaling the Service to 3
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service scale whoami=3
whoami scaled to 3
overall progress: 3 out of 3 tasks
1/4: running [==================================================>]
2/4: running [==================================================>]
3/4: running [==================================================>]
verify: Service converged Scaling the service to 16
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service scale whoami=16
whoami scaled to 16
overall progress: 16 out of 16 tasks
1/16: running [==================================================>]
2/16: running [==================================================>]
3/16: running [==================================================>]
4/16: running [==================================================>]
5/16: running [==================================================>]
6/16: running [==================================================>]
7/16: running [==================================================>]
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11/16: running [==================================================>]
12/16: running [==================================================>]
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15/16: running [==================================================>]
16/16: running [==================================================>]
verify: Service converged Scaling the Service to 32
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service scale whoami=32
whoami scaled to 32
overall progress: 32 out of 32 tasks
verify: Service converged Scaling the Service back to 4
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service scale whoami=4
whoami scaled to 4
overall progress: 4 out of 4 tasks
1/4: running [==================================================>]
2/4: running [==================================================>]
3/4: running [==================================================>]
4/4: running [==================================================>]
verify: Service converged Listing out the service
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service ls
ID NAME MODE REPLICAS IMAGE PORTS
h7ap83sidbw8 monitor global 2/2 stefanscherer/monitor:1.1.0
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi#
Listing the Nodes
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker node ls
ID HOSTNAME STATUS AVAILABILITY MANAGER STATUS ENGINE VERSION
ijnqkk7vybzts7ohgt63fteoo raspberrypi Ready Active 18.09.0
j7i394an31gsevxt3fndzvum5 * raspberrypi Ready Active Leader 18.09.0
let43cp6uoankngeg5lmd91mn raspberrypi Down Active 18.09.0
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# Rolling Updates
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# docker service update --image stefanscherer/whoami:1.2.0 \
> --update-parallelism 4 --update-delay 2s whoami
whoami
overall progress: 2 out of 4 tasks
1/4: preparing [=================================> ]
2/4: running [==================================================>]
3/4: preparing [=================================> ]
4/4: running [==================================================>]
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# Overall, it was an amazing experience to showcase the power of Raspberry Pi to monitor Docker Swarm Cluster using Pironomi Blinkt! LEDs. In my future post, I will bring another interesting use cases around Docker & Raspberry Pi.
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