Preparing a Docker Enterprise platform for the PoC step

The goal of this section is to get familiar with a simple, end-to-end setup of Docker Enterprise as quickly as possible. Think of it as building out an MVP Docker Enterprise platform that includes the Docker UCP and DTR as a place to deploy our PoC application. To that end, we will walk through the details of standing up a PoC cluster and we will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to demonstrate the process to do the following:

  • We'll prepare a four-node Linux cluster:
    1. Install a trial version of Docker Enterprise Engine on all nodes (configure storage and logging)
    2. Install UCP and DTR on two of the nodes
    3. Create a PoC user and Docker CLI bundles for the PoC user
  • We'll build and push sample Swarm and Kubernetes application images. 
  • We'll deploy a sample application and test access as a PoC user with CLI to test the cluster.
  • We'll update the application image and redeploy.