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