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Docker Swarm Essentials (On Demand)
In the CN110: Docker Swarm Essentials course, you’ll learn what a containerized application looks like when orchestrated by Docker Swarm. We’ll cover scheduling workloads across a cluster,...
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In the CN110: Docker Swarm Essentials 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.
- Access Length: 365 Days
Skills Gained
- Containerization motivations and implementation
- Creating, managing and auditing containers
- Best practices in container image design
- Single-host container networking
- Provisioning external storage
Who Can Benefit
- Motivations: Begin creating high performance containers for new or existing applications
- 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
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 Outline
- Containerization motivations and implementation
- Usecases
- Comparison to virtual machines
- Creating, managing and auditing containers
- Container implementation from the Linux kernel
- Container lifecycle details
- Core container creation, auditing and management CLI
- Best practices in container image design
- Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications
- Creating images with Dockerfiles
- Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices
- Single-host container networking
- Docker native networking model
- Software defined networks for containers
- Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing
- Provisioning external storage
- Docker volume creation and management
- Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.
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