OnDemand Training
TRNG-OD-CN110-02
Docker Swarm Application Essentials
Course - CN110
Starting at $600.00 per seat
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.
Benefits
Course Duration:
1 day
Who Should Attend:
- Role: general technical audiences & IT professionals
- Motivations: develop, operate or manage scalable containerized applications orchestrated by Docker Swarm
Course Prerequisites:
- CN100 course or equivalent experience
- 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
Lab Requirements:
- Laptop with WiFi connectivity
- Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io.
Course Outline:
- 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