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Prerequisite Courses
In this course, you’ll learn what a containerized application looks like when orchestrated by Docker Swarm. We’ll cover scheduling workloads across a cluster, networking stateless and stateful applications, provisioning dynamic configuration and persistent storage, and scaling highly available applications in this course intended to set a strong foundation in orchestration for all technical roles.
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Skills Gained
- Setting up and configuring a Swarm
- Deploying workloads on Swarm
- Networking Swarm workloads
- Provisioning dynamic configuration
- Provisioning persistent storage
- Application rollout and upgrade
- Advanced scheduling control
Who Can Benefit
- Motivations: Develop, operate or manage scalable containerized applications orchestrated by Docker Swarm
- Roles: General technical audiences & IT professionals
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with the Bash shell
- Filesystem navigation and manipulation
- Command line text editors like vim or nano
- Common tooling like curl, wget and ping
- Familiarity with YAML and JSON notation
- CN100 course or equivalent experience
Course Details
Lab Requirements
- Laptop with WiFi connectivity
- Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io
Course Objectives
Setting up and configuring a Swarm
- Operational priorities of container orchestration
- Containerized application architecture
- Swarm scheduling workflow & task model
- Automatic failure mitigation
- Swarm installation & advanced customization
Deploying workloads on Swarm
- Defining workloads as services
- Scaling workloads
- Container scheduling control
- Rolling application updates and rollback
- Application healthchecks
- Application troubleshooting
- Deploying applications as Stacks
Networking Swarm workloads
- Swarm service discovery and routing implementation
- Routing strategies for stateful and stateless workloads
- Swarm ingress traffic
Provisioning dynamic configuration
- Application configuration design
- Environment variable management
- Configuration file management
- Provisioning sensitive information
Provisioning persistent storage
- Storage backend architecture patterns
- NFS backed Swarms
Monitoring Swarm
- What to monitor in production-grade Swarms
- Potential Swarm failure modes & mitigations
- Swarm workload monitoring
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