07 Create a Stack

This page details how to create a stack on a running instance of Rancher server.
A stack groups one or more service, which are composed of one or more containers.
Usually, one would associate a stack with an application and the stack services with application subsystem (database, back-end, cache, etc.).

More information can be found here.

1. Go to Rancher UI

2. Go to menu → Stacks

3. Click "Browse Catalog" button

4. Take a look all those catalog items ...

5. Search catalog by "DokuWiki"

6. Click the "View Details" button

7. Fill in the fields

   1. Template Version: 2016-06-26a
   2. Name: dokuwiki1
   3. Description: DokuWiki instance #1
   4. Hostname: dw1.example.com
   5. HTTP port: 80

   

8. Click the "Launch" button

9. See the stack being created and its services being started

10. After all services has been successfully started, click the link "80" from the Ports field

11. Take a look at the running DokuWiki instance