Docker Swarm Application Essentials

Master Docker Swarm with essential skills to orchestrate scalable, highly available containerized applications tailored for IT professionals and technical specialists.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design container orchestration strategies.

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Implement Swarm workload deployments.

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Understand Swarm networking and storage.

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Monitor and troubleshoot Swarm environments.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • IT professionals
  • Technical specialists
  • System administrators
  • DevOps engineers

Description

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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Upcoming Course Dates

August 6-6, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

Enroll

$800

Course Outline

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Setting up and configuring a Swarm

  1. Operational priorities of container orchestration

  2. Containerized application architecture

  3. Swarm scheduling workflow & task model

  4. Automatic failure mitigation

  5. Swarm installation & advanced customization

Deploying workloads on Swarm

  1. Defining workloads as services

  2. Scaling workloads

  3. Container scheduling control

  4. Rolling application updates and rollback

  5. Application healthchecks

  6. Application troubleshooting

  7. Deploying applications as Stacks

Networking Swarm workloads

  1. Swarm service discovery and routing implementation

  2. Routing strategies for stateful and stateless workloads

  3. Swarm ingress traffic

Provisioning dynamic configuration

  1. Application configuration design

  2. Environment variable management

  3. Configuration file management

  4. Provisioning sensitive information

Provisioning persistent storage

  1. Storage backend architecture patterns

  2. NFS backed Swarms

Monitoring Swarm

  1. What to monitor in production-grade Swarms

  2. Potential Swarm failure modes & mitigations

  3. Swarm workload monitoring

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