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description: Deploy your first node on Docker Cloud
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keywords: node, create, understand
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title: Deploy your first node
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---
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In this step you'll create your first node (inside a node cluster) on Docker Cloud.
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After you link your Docker Cloud account with your hosts (either your own hosts or one or more cloud providers), the next step is to launch your first node.
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When launching a node you'll actually be creating a _node cluster_. Node clusters are groups of nodes of the same type and from the same cloud provider, and they allow you to scale the infrastructure by provisioning more nodes with a drag of a slider.
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To start, go to the **Nodes** section and click **Create**.
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Enter the following:
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- **Name**: name for the node cluster. This can contain alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores.
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- **Deploy tags**: (optional) these are used to limit what can be deployed on the specific cluster. Read more about deployment tags [here](../apps/deploy-tags.md).
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- **Provider**: the cloud provider or host to use. Only providers you have configured appear in this menu.
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- **Region**: the region on which to provision the node cluster.
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- **Type/size**: the type and size of the nodes in the cluster.
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- **Number of nodes**: the number of nodes to create in the node cluster. This can be modified later.
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- **Disk size**: the disk size for each node.
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> **Note**: You might see more or different options in this screen depending on which hosts or providers you're using. For example, DigitalOcean nodes have a fixed disk size depending on the type and size of the node you choose.
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Click **Launch node cluster** to provision this node cluster. It may take several minutes for the cluster to launch. To view and follow along with deployment progress, click into the node cluster, click the **Timeline** tab, then expand the **Node Cluster Deploy** item to view the console.
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Once the node cluster is deployed, you'll see a Success message near the top of the page.
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From the Node cluster detail view you can see the status of your nodes, destroy individual nodes or the whole cluster, upgrade individual nodes, and scale your node cluster from 1 to 10 nodes. You can also click an individual node's hostname to see which containers are running on it.
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## What's next?
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Now that you've got at least one **node** deployed, it's time to deploy your first **service**.
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Remember that a service is a group of containers from the same container image. Services make it simple to scale your application across a number of nodes. They can also be linked one to another even if they are deployed on different nodes, regions, or even on different cloud providers.
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[Continue the tutorial and deploy your first service](your_first_service.md).
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