# Deploy to Swarm — Deploy and check your application

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Deploy your application to Swarm

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker stack deploy -c bb-stack.yaml demo
```

If all goes well, Swarm will report creating all your stack objects with no complaints

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   Creating network demo_default
   Creating service demo_bb-app
```

Notice that in addition to your service, Swarm also creates a Docker network by default to isolate the containers deployed as part of your stack.

Make sure everything worked by listing your service

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker service ls
```

If all has gone well, your service will report with 1/1 of its replicas created

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   ID                  NAME                MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE               PORTS
   il7elwunymbs        demo_bb-app         replicated          1/1                 getting-started:latest   *:8000-&gt;3000/tcp
```

This indicates 1/1 containers you asked for as part of your services are up and running. Also, you see that port 8000 on your development machine is getting forwarded to port 3000 in your getting-started container.

Open a browser and visit your Todo app at localhost:8000; you should see your Todo application, the same as when you ran it as a stand-alone container in Part 2 of the tutorial.

Once satisfied, tear down your application

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   $ docker stack rm demo
```

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