Troubleshooting - The Microsoft Azure Container Service

In this section, we'll be looking at how to deploy a Docker Swarm cluster and provide orchestrator configuration details in Microsoft Azure:

1. We need to create an RSA key, which will be requested in the deployment steps. The key will be required to log in to the deployed machines post installation:

           $ ssh-keygen
   

   Once generated, the keys can be found in ~/root/id_rsa

2. Click on the New button in your Azure account portal:

   

3. Search for the Azure Container Service and select it:

   

4. After this step, select Resource Manager as the deployment model and click on the Create button:

   

5. Configure the basics settings page, the following details are required: User name, which will be administrator for the virtual machines deployed in the Docker Swarm cluster; the second field is to provide the SSH public key we created in the step 1; and create a new resource group by specifying the name in the Resource Group field:

   

6. Select the Orchestrator configuration...