moby--moby/docs/reference/commandline/deploy.md

---
title: "deploy"
description: "The deploy command description and usage"
keywords: "stack, deploy"
advisory: "experimental"
---

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# deploy (alias for stack deploy) (experimental)

```markdown
Usage:  docker deploy [OPTIONS] STACK

Create and update a stack from a Distributed Application Bundle (DAB)

Options:
      --file   string        Path to a Distributed Application Bundle file (Default: STACK.dab)
      --help                 Print usage
      --with-registry-auth   Send registry authentication details to swarm agents
```

Create and update a stack from a `dab` file. This command has to be
run targeting a manager node.

```bash
$ docker deploy vossibility-stack
Loading bundle from vossibility-stack.dab
Creating service vossibility-stack_elasticsearch
Creating service vossibility-stack_kibana
Creating service vossibility-stack_logstash
Creating service vossibility-stack_lookupd
Creating service vossibility-stack_nsqd
Creating service vossibility-stack_vossibility-collector
```

You can verify that the services were correctly created:

```bash
$ docker service ls
ID            NAME                                     MODE         REPLICAS    IMAGE
29bv0vnlm903  vossibility-stack_lookupd                replicated   1/1         nsqio/nsq@sha256:eeba05599f31eba418e96e71e0984c3dc96963ceb66924dd37a47bf7ce18a662
4awt47624qwh  vossibility-stack_nsqd                   replicated   1/1         nsqio/nsq@sha256:eeba05599f31eba418e96e71e0984c3dc96963ceb66924dd37a47bf7ce18a662
4tjx9biia6fs  vossibility-stack_elasticsearch          replicated   1/1         elasticsearch@sha256:12ac7c6af55d001f71800b83ba91a04f716e58d82e748fa6e5a7359eed2301aa
7563uuzr9eys  vossibility-stack_kibana                 replicated   1/1         kibana@sha256:6995a2d25709a62694a937b8a529ff36da92ebee74bafd7bf00e6caf6db2eb03
9gc5m4met4he  vossibility-stack_logstash               replicated   1/1         logstash@sha256:2dc8bddd1bb4a5a34e8ebaf73749f6413c101b2edef6617f2f7713926d2141fe
axqh55ipl40h  vossibility-stack_vossibility-collector  replicated   1/1         icecrime/vossibility-collector@sha256:f03f2977203ba6253988c18d04061c5ec7aab46bca9dfd89a9a1fa4500989fba
```

## Related information

* [stack config](stack_config.md)
* [stack deploy](stack_deploy.md)
* [stack ls](stack_ls.md)
* [stack ps](stack_ps.md)
* [stack rm](stack_rm.md)
* [stack services](stack_services.md)