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Delete the service running on the swarm ​

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The remaining steps in the tutorial don't use the helloworld service, so now you can delete the service from the swarm.

  1. If you haven't already, open a terminal and ssh into the machine where you run your manager node. For example, the tutorial uses a machine named manager1.

  2. Run docker service rm helloworld to remove the helloworld service.

console
$ docker service rm helloworld

helloworld
  1. Run docker service inspect <SERVICE-ID&gt; to verify that the swarm manager removed the service. The CLI returns a message that the service is not found:
console
$ docker service inspect helloworld
[]
Status: Error: no such service: helloworld, Code: 1
  1. Even though the service no longer exists, the task containers take a few seconds to clean up. You can use docker ps on the nodes to verify when the tasks have been removed.
console
$ docker ps

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS     NAMES
db1651f50347        alpine:latest       "ping docker.com"        44 minutes ago      Up 46 seconds                 helloworld.5.9lkmos2beppihw95vdwxy1j3w
43bf6e532a92        alpine:latest       "ping docker.com"        44 minutes ago      Up 46 seconds                 helloworld.3.a71i8rp6fua79ad43ycocl4t2
5a0fb65d8fa7        alpine:latest       "ping docker.com"        44 minutes ago      Up 45 seconds                 helloworld.2.2jpgensh7d935qdc857pxulfr
afb0ba67076f        alpine:latest       "ping docker.com"        44 minutes ago      Up 46 seconds                 helloworld.4.1c47o7tluz7drve4vkm2m5olx
688172d3bfaa        alpine:latest       "ping docker.com"        45 minutes ago      Up About a minute             helloworld.1.74nbhb3fhud8jfrhigd7s29we

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS     NAMES

Next steps ​

Next, you'll set up a new service and apply a rolling update.

Apply rolling updates