Ingress Load Balancing
Learn about ingress mode and host mode for publishing Docker services.
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Please note that this section only applies to Docker Swarm.
Types of mode
Swarm supports two ways of publishing services to external clients:
Ingress mode (default)
Host mode
External clients can access ingress mode services via any swarm node—even nodes not hosting a service replica. However, they can only access host mode services via nodes running replicas. The figure below shows both modes.
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