Wowu / docker-rollout

🚀 Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout
MIT License
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docker rollout
Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose

Docker CLI plugin that updates Docker Compose services without downtime.

Simply replace docker compose up -d <service> with docker rollout <service> in your deployment scripts. This command will scale the service to twice the current number of instances, wait for the new containers to be ready, and then remove the old containers.

Features

Installation

# Create directory for Docker cli plugins
mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins

# Download docker-rollout script to Docker cli plugins directory
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wowu/docker-rollout/master/docker-rollout -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-rollout

# Make the script executable
chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-rollout

Usage

Run docker rollout <name> instead of docker compose up -d <name> to update a service without downtime.

$ docker rollout -f docker-compose.yml <service-name>

Options:

See examples in examples directory for sample docker-compose.yml files.

⚠️ Caveats

Sample deployment script

Sample deployment script for web service:

# Download latest code
git pull
# Build new app image
docker compose build web
# Run database migrations
docker compose run web rake db:migrate
# Deploy new version
docker rollout web

Why?

Using docker compose up to deploy a new version of a service causes downtime because the app container is stopped before the new container is created. If your application takes a while to boot, this may be noticeable to users.

Using container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad is usually an overkill for projects that will do fine with a single-server Docker Compose setup. Dokku comes with zero-downtime deployment and more useful features, but it's not as flexible as Docker Compose.

If you have a proxy like Traefik or nginx-proxy, a zero downtime deployment can be achieved by writing a script that scales the service to 2 instances, waits for the new container to be ready, and then removes the old container. docker rollout does exactly that, but with a single command that you can use in your deployment scripts. If you're using Docker healthchecks, Traefik will make sure that traffic is only routed to the new container when it's ready.

License

MIT License © Karol Musur