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🚢 Phase 6: Orchestration with Docker Swarm (Optional)

Once you’ve mastered local development, we introduce Docker Swarm for distributed service orchestration.

🎯 You’ll Learn:

• Running your app on a multi-node Docker cluster
• Service scaling, rolling updates, and high availability
• Managing load balancing and service discovery

🛠 Topics Covered:

• Initializing a Docker Swarm (docker swarm init)
• Creating overlay networks
• Deploying stacks via docker stack deploy
• Scaling services with replicas
• Monitoring service health and logs

🔁 Optional Lab: Simulate node failure and observe Swarm's self-healing