Play with Docker Playground

Prakash
Developers Stacks
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2 min readMay 26, 2018

Introduction

Docker playground which allows users to run Docker commands in a matter of seconds. It gives the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in browser, where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters in Docker Swarm Mode.

Docker Playground

Under the hood Docker-in-Docker (DinD) is used to give the effect of multiple VMs/PCs. In addition to the playground, PWD also includes a training site composed of a large set of Docker labs and quizzes from beginner to advanced level available at training.play-with-docker.com.

What you can do with the help of docker playground.

Docker Machine

Docker Playground gives you a session with 5 machines having 32Gb of RAM is all the instance available for 4 hours after that the session and instance of your machine are deleted.

Create new instance

Adding a new instance in your docker playground. A new instance is created and has an IP address and 32 GB of Ram. It gives you a Linux machine environment with docker.

Docker Templates

You also use the templates with docker swarm mode. Docker Playground having two templates.

  1. First template having 5 docker machine instance in which 3 instance are working as an manager and 2 instance as an workers.
  2. Second template having 5 docker machine instance as an manager.

Create instance using templates

Creating a instance of 3 Managers and 2 Workers with docker swarm mode.

For more : https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/

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