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Universal Control Plane	Learn about Docker Universal Control Plane, the enterprise-grade cluster management solution from Docker.	ucp, overview, orchestration, clustering	/ucp/	version orhigher ucp-3.0 true version orlower ucp-2.2 true	version docker-cli-linux version docker-cli-win version kubectl	path title /engine/install Install Docker path title /get-started/ Get Started with Docker

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{% if include.version=="ucp-3.0" %} Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) is a secure, scalable, and supported container platform for building and orchestrating applications across multi-tenant Linux and Windows environments.

Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) is a Containers-as-a-Service platform for IT that manages and secures diverse applications across disparate infrastructure, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) enables deploying your workloads for high availability (HA) onto the orchestrator of your choice. Docker EE automates many of the tasks that orchestration requires, like provisioning pods, containers, and cluster resources. Self-healing components

Role-based access control applies to all of the orchestrators, and communcation within the cluster is secured with TLS. Docker Content Trust is enforced for images on all of the orchestrators.

Interoperability between swarm and kubernetes workloads (networking/storage) Fully supports all EE features including LDAP/AD, RBAC, Scanning, Signing Enforcement, Security Policies, etc.

{% elsif include.version=="ucp-2.2" %} Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) is the enterprise-grade cluster management solution from Docker. You install it on-premises or in your virtual private cloud, and it helps you manage your Docker swarm and applications through a single interface.

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Centralized swarm management

With Docker, you can join up to thousands of physical or virtual machines together to create a container cluster, or swarm, allowing you to deploy your applications at scale. Docker Universal Control Plane extends the functionality provided by Docker to make it easier to manage your swarm from a centralized place.

You can manage and monitor your container cluster using a graphical UI.

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{% if include.cli %} Since UCP exposes the standard Docker API, you can continue using the tools you already know, including the Docker CLI client, to deploy and manage your applications.

For example, you can use the docker info command to check the status of a Docker swarm managed by UCP:

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$ docker info

Containers: 38
Running: 23
Paused: 0
Stopped: 15
Images: 17
Server Version: 17.06
...
Swarm: active
NodeID: ocpv7el0uz8g9q7dmw8ay4yps
Is Manager: true
ClusterID: tylpv1kxjtgoik2jnrg8pvkg6
Managers: 1
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PS> docker info

{% elsif include.version=="kubectl" %} UCP also exposes the standard Kubernetes API, so you can use the usual Kubernetes commands, like kubectl cluster-info:

$ kubectl cluster-info

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Deploy, manage, and monitor

With Docker UCP, you can manage from a centralized place all of the computing resources you have available, like nodes, volumes, and networks.

You can also deploy and monitor your applications and services.

Built-in security and access control

Docker UCP has its own built-in authentication mechanism and integrates with LDAP services. It also has role-based access control (RBAC), so that you can control who can access and make changes to your swarm and applications. Learn about role-based access control.

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Docker UCP integrates with Docker Trusted Registry so that you can keep the Docker images you use for your applications behind your firewall, where they are safe and can't be tampered with.

You can also enforce security policies and only allow running applications that use Docker images you know and trust.

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