Deploy the application

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In these steps, you’ll use the docker-stack.yml file to deploy the voting application to the swarm you just created.

Copy docker-stack.yml to the manager

The docker-stack.yml file must be located on a manager for the swarm where you want to deploy the application stack.

Get docker-stack.yml either from the source code in the lab or by copying it from the example given here.

If you prefer to download the file directly from our GitHub repository rather than copy it from the documentation, you can use a tool like curl. This command downloads the raw file to the current directory on your local host. You can copy-paste it into your shell if you have curl:
```
 curl -o docker-stack.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/example-voting-app/master/docker-stack.yml
```
Tips:
- To get the URL for the raw file on GitHub, either use the link in the example command above, or go to the file on GitHub here, then click Raw in the upper right.
- You might already have curl installed. If not, you can get curl here.

Copy docker-stack.yml from your host machine onto the manager.

$ docker-machine scp ~/sandbox/voting-app/docker-stack.yml manager:/home/docker/.
docker-stack.yml                                                                      100% 1558     1.5KB/s   00:00

Log into the manager node.
```
$ docker-machine ssh manager
```
The ssh login should put you in /home/docker/ by default.
Check to make sure that the .yml file is there, using ls.
```
docker@manager:~$ ls /home/docker/
docker-stack.yml
```
You can use vi or cat to inspect the file.

Deploy the app

We’ll deploy the application from the manager.

Deploy the application stack based on the .yml using the command docker stack deploy as follows.

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

Here is an example of the command and the output.

docker@manager:~$ docker stack deploy --compose-file docker-stack.yml vote
Creating network vote_default
Creating network vote_backend
Creating network vote_frontend
Creating service vote_result
Creating service vote_worker
Creating service vote_visualizer
Creating service vote_redis
Creating service vote_db
Creating service vote_vote

Verify that the stack deployed as expected with docker stack services <APP-NAME>.

docker@manager:~$ docker stack services vote
ID            NAME             MODE        REPLICAS  IMAGE
0y3q6lgc0drn  vote_result      replicated  2/2       dockersamples/examplevotingapp_result:before
fvsaqvuec4yw  vote_redis       replicated  2/2       redis:alpine
igev2xk5s3zo  vote_worker      replicated  1/1       dockersamples/examplevotingapp_worker:latest
vpfjr9b0qc01  vote_visualizer  replicated  1/1       dockersamples/visualizer:stable
wctxjnwl22k4  vote_vote        replicated  2/2       dockersamples/examplevotingapp_vote:before
zp0zyvgaguox  vote_db          replicated  1/1       postgres:9.4

What’s next?

In the next steps, we’ll view components of the running app on web pages, and take the app for a test drive.

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