work nicely with 'docker service ...'

[rade]

Does weave work "nicely" with the new Docker 1.12 docker service ... functionality?

In particular...

• does it work when using the proxy?
• does it work when using the default 'weave' plugin network?
• does it work when using custom networks created from 'weave' driver?
• does it work when the service is using VIPs (a feature of docker services)

The objective of this issue is to:

• answer the above
• write a blog post, provided some things do work
• tweak docs, if necessary, to explain how to make things work
• file issues, if necessary, to make things work

[ConnorJC3]

Going to comment here instead of making a new issue. Is there any progress on this? As far as I can tell weave doesn't work at all with services in swarm mode.

root@localhost:~# docker service create --replicas 1 --name nginx --network weave nginx
Error response from daemon: network weave is not eligible for docker services

Is there any way to use docker services and weave, or is it currently impossible?

[rade]

From Docker's documentation on network plugins:

swarm mode currently only supports the built-in overlay driver for networking. Therefore existing networking plugins will not work in swarm mode.

[ConnorJC3]

@rade Thanks, that's what I suspected. I guess it's time to consider kubernetes.

[bboreham]

Note #2727 made most of this work with a new "v2" plugin; we still have to document it.