SWIRL

Swirl is a web management tool for Docker, focused on swarm cluster.

Warning: v1.0+ is not fully compatible with previous versions, it is recommended to redeploy instead of upgrading directly.

Features

• Swarm components management
• Image and container management
• Compose management with deployment support
• Service monitoring based on Prometheus and cadvisor
• Service auto scaling
• LDAP authentication support
• Full permission control based on RBAC model
• Scale out as you want
• Multiple language support
• And more...

Snapshots

Home

Service list

Service stats

Stack list

Settings

Configuration

With config file

All options can be set with config/app.yml.

name: swirl
banner: false

web:
  entries:
    - address: :8002
  authorize: '?'

swirl:
  db_type: mongo
  db_address: mongodb://localhost:27017/swirl
#  token_expiry: 30m
#  docker_api_version: '1.41'
#  docker_endpoint: tcp://docker-proxy:2375

log:
  loggers:
  - level: info
    writers: console
  writers:
  - name: console
    type: console
    layout: '[{L}]{T}: {M}{N}'

With environment variables

Only these options can be set by environment variables for now.

Name	Value
DB_TYPE	mongo(default),bolt
DB_ADDRESS	mongodb://localhost:27017/swirl
TOKEN_EXPIRY	30m
DOCKER_ENDPOINT	tcp://docker-proxy:2375
DOCKER_API_VERSION	1.41

With swarm config

Docker support mounting configuration file through swarm from v17.06, so you can store your config in swarm and mount it to your program.

Deployment

Swirl support two storage engines now: mongo and bolt. bolt is suitable for development environment, Swirl can only deploy one replica if you use bolt storage engine.

Standalone

Just copy the swirl binary and config directory to the host, and run it.

./swirl

Docker

• Use bolt storage engine

docker run -d -p 8001:8001 \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    -v /data/swirl:/data/swirl \
    -e DB_TYPE=bolt \
    -e DB_ADDRESS=/data/swirl \
    --name=swirl \
    cuigh/swirl

• Use MongoDB storage engine

docker run -d -p 8001:8001 \
    --mount type=bind,src=/var/run/docker.sock,dst=/var/run/docker.sock \
    -e DB_TYPE=mongo \
    -e DB_ADDRESS=mongodb://localhost:27017/swirl \
    --name=swirl \
    cuigh/swirl

Docker swarm

• Use bolt storage engine

docker service create \
  --name=swirl \
  --publish=8001:8001/tcp \
  --env DB_TYPE=bolt \
  --env DB_ADDRESS=/data/swirl \
  --constraint=node.hostname==manager1 \
  --mount=type=bind,src=/var/run/docker.sock,dst=/var/run/docker.sock \
  --mount=type=bind,src=/data/swirl,dst=/data/swirl \
  cuigh/swirl

• Use MongoDB storage engine

docker service create \
  --name=swirl \
  --publish=8001:8001/tcp \
  --env DB_ADDRESS=mongodb://localhost:27017/swirl \
  --constraint=node.role==manager \
  --mount=type=bind,src=/var/run/docker.sock,dst=/var/run/docker.sock \
  cuigh/swirl

Docker compose

docker stack deploy -c compose.yml swirl

Advanced features

Swirl use service labels to support some features, the labels in the table below are currently supported.

Name	Description	Examples
swirl.scale	Service auto scaling	swirl.scale=min=1,max=5,cpu=30:50

Build

To build Swirl from source, you need yarn and go(v1.16+) installed.

$ cd ui 
$ yarn
$ yarn build
$ cd ..
$ go build

License

This product is licensed to you under the MIT License. You may not use this product except in compliance with the License. See LICENSE and NOTICE for more information.