Deploy to Swarm — Describe apps using stack files
Swarm never creates individual containers like you did in the previous step of this tutorial.
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Swarm never creates individual containers like you did in the previous step of this tutorial. Instead, all Swarm workloads are scheduled as services, which are scalable groups of containers with added networking features maintained automatically by Swarm. Furthermore, all Swarm objects can and should be described in manifests called stack files. These YAML files describe all the components and configurations of your Swarm app, and can be used to create and destroy your app in any Swarm environment.
Now you can write a simple stack file to run and manage your Todo app, the container getting-started image created in Part 2 of the tutorial. Place the following in a file called bb-stack.yaml
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
version: "3.7"
services:
bb-app:
image: getting-started
ports:
- "8000:3000"
```
In this Swarm YAML file, there is one object, a service, describing a scalable group of identical containers. In this case, you'll get just one container (the default), and that container will be based on your getting-started image created in Part 2 of the tutorial. In addition, you've asked Swarm to forward all traffic arriving at port 8000 on your development machine to port 3000 inside our getting-started container.
> Kubernetes Services and Swarm Services are very different > > Despite the similar name, the two orchestrators mean very different things by > the term 'service'. In Swarm, a service provides both scheduling and > networking facilities, creating containers and providing tools for routing > traffic to them. In Kubernetes, scheduling and networking are handled > separately, deployments (or other controllers) handle the scheduling of > containers as pods, while services are responsible only for adding > networking features to those pods.
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