Application redirects

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Once the layer 7 routing solution is enabled, you can start using it in your swarm services. In this example we’ll deploy a simple service that can be reached at app.example.org. We’ll also redirect requests to old.example.org to that service.

To do that, create a docker-compose.yml file with:

version: "3.2"

services:
  demo:
    image: ehazlett/docker-demo
    deploy:
      replicas: 1
      labels:
        com.docker.lb.hosts: app.example.org,old.example.org
        com.docker.lb.network: demo-network
        com.docker.lb.port: 8080
        com.docker.lb.redirects: http://old.example.org,http://app.example.org
    networks:
      - demo-network

networks:
  demo-network:
    driver: overlay

Note that the demo service has labels to signal that traffic for both app.example.org and old.example.org should be routed to this service. There’s also a label indicating that all traffic directed to old.example.org should be redirected to app.example.org.

Set up your CLI client with a UCP client bundle, and deploy the service:

docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-compose.yml demo

You can also use the CLI to test if the redirect is working, by running:

curl --head --header "Host: old.example.org" http://<ucp-ip>:<http-port>

You should see something like:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: nginx/1.13.8
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 23:16:46 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 161
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://app.example.org/

You can also test that the redirect works from your browser. For that, you need to make sure you add entries for both app.example.org and old.example.org to your /etc/hosts file, mapping them to the IP address of a UCP node.

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