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Getting Started with Docker Swarm

Love using docker on a single machine and want to easily scale across multiple machines? This course will teach you about creating clusters and orchestrating containers with Docker Swarm.

Intermediate
4h 12m
(29)

Created by Wes Higbee

Last Updated Oct 25, 2021

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Getting Started with Docker Swarm

Love using docker on a single machine and want to easily scale across multiple machines? This course will teach you about creating clusters and orchestrating containers with Docker Swarm.

Intermediate
4h 12m
(29)

Created by Wes Higbee

Last Updated Oct 25, 2021

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What do you do when a single, standalone Docker node no longer is sufficient? In this course, Getting Started with Docker Swarm, you’ll learn to scale beyond the limitations of a single machine while maintaining the simplicity of Docker and Docker Compose on a single node. First, you’ll bootstrap a multi-node cluster with just a few, simple docker commands. Next, you’ll discover how to deploy services and jobs with stack yaml files. Finally, you’ll learn how to inject config and sensitive secrets. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Docker Swarm needed to orchestrate container workloads across any number of nodes.

Getting Started with Docker Swarm
Intermediate
4h 12m
(29)
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Wes Higbee
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Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers.

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