Node access control in Docker EE Advanced

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The ability to segment scheduling and visibility by node is called node access control and is a feature of Docker EE Advanced. By default, all nodes that aren’t infrastructure nodes (UCP & DTR nodes) belong to a built-in collection called /Shared. By default, all application workloads in the cluster will get scheduled on nodes in the /Shared collection. This includes users that are deploying in their private collections (/Shared/Private/) and in any other collections under /Shared. This is enabled by a built-in grant that grants every UCP user the scheduler capability against the /Shared collection.

Node Access Control works by placing nodes into custom collections outside of /Shared. If the scheduler capability is granted via a role to a user or group of users against a collection, they can schedule containers and services on these nodes. In the following example, users with scheduler capability against /collection1 can schedule applications on those nodes.

In the directory these collections lie outside of the /Shared collection so users without grants will not have access to these collections unless explicitly granted access. These users can only deploy applications on the built-in /Shared collection nodes.

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The tree representation of this collection structure looks like this:

/
├── Shared
├── System
├── collection1
└── collection2
    ├── sub-collection1
    └── sub-collection2

With the use of default collections, users, teams, and organizations can be constrained to what nodes and physical infrastructure they are capable of deploying on.

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