Figure 3. Docker UCP Dashboard
Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) is a containerized web application (UI-based) that runs on Docker Enterprise Edition and makes it easier to deploy, configure, and monitor your applications at scale. You could as well get started with Docker UCP on your Docker community edition (CE).
In this post, you would learn about some of the following:
One can do some of the following using Docker UCP:
Under the hood, UCP is a containerized application which once installed becomes the bridge between users and Docker runtime engine. Users interacts with Docker runtime using UCP. The following is the list of some of the containers which runs as part of UCP in the manager node:
Details can be found on the page, UCP components in manager nodes
The following command can be used to install Docker UCP in Linux environments. Make a note of options such as registry-username and registry-password which needs to be provided for installation to become successful. These are your Dockerhub username and password.
docker container run --rm -it --name ucp -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock docker/ucp install --registry-username ajitesh --registry-password **your_password**
If you do not include Dockerhub registry username and password, you would get an error such as We were unable to pull one or more required images. Please set REGISTRY_USERNAME and REGISTRY_PASSWORD environment variables for your Docker Hub account on this container with -e flags to run.
The following represents the successful installation of Docker UCP.
Figure 1. Installation of docker universal control plane
Follow some of the steps given below to login and access Docker UCP dashboard:
Figure 2. Docker UCP Login Page
Figure 3. Docker UCP Login Intermediate Page
Figure 4. Docker UCP Dashboard
UCP Dashboard could help you do some of the following:
In this post, you learned about how to install and get started with Docker Universal control plane in addition to brief introduction to Docker UCP.
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