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description: Introduction and Overview of Docker Cluster
keywords: documentation, docs, docker, cluster, infrastructure, automation
title: Overview of Docker Cluster
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Docker Cluster is a tool for lifecycle management of Docker clusters.
With Cluster, you use a YAML file to configure your provider's resources.
Then, with a single command, you provision and install all the resources
from your configuration.
Using Docker Cluster is a three-step process:
1. Ensure you have the credentials necessary to provision a cluster.
2. Define the resources that make up your cluster in `cluster.yml`
3. Run `docker cluster create` to have Cluster provision resources and install Docker Enterprise on the resources.
A `cluster.yml` file resembles the following example:
variable:
region: us-east-2
ucp_password:
type: prompt
provider:
aws:
region: ${region}
cluster:
engine:
version: "ee-stable-18.09.5"
ucp:
version: "docker/ucp:3.1.6"
username: "admin"
password: ${ucp_password}
resource:
aws_instance:
managers:
quantity: 1
For more information about Cluster files, refer to the
[Cluster file reference](cluster-file/index.md).
Docker Cluster has commands for managing the whole lifecycle of your cluster:
* Create and destroy clusters
* Scale up or Scale down clusters
* Upgrade clusters
* View the status of clusters
* Backup and Restore clusters
## Cluster documentation
- [Get started with Docker Cluster on AWS](aws.md)
- [Command line reference](./reference/index.md)
- [Cluster file reference](./cluster-file/index.md)