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.

• Motivations: Begin creating high performance containers for new or existing applications

• Roles: General technical audiences & IT professionals

• Familiarity with the bash shell

• Filesystem navigation and manipulation

• Command line text editors like vim or nano

• Common tooling like curl, wget and ping

• Laptop with WiFi connectivity

• Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io

• 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.