Course description
Docker Certified Associate (DCA) certification course - eLearning
AVC's Docker certification course is aligned with the Certified Associate exam. You will learn key Docker technologies such as Docker Hub, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Dockerfile, Docker Containers, Docker Engine, Docker Images, Docker Network, Docker Daemon, and Docker Storage, along with real-world case studies.
What's included?
- Practical e-learning
- 2 end-of-course evaluations
- 3 projects at the end of the course
- E-books included
- Knowledge checks at the end of the lesson
- Industry-recognized certificate of course completion
- 6+ hours of online self-study material
Prerequisites
Good knowledge and practical experience with Linux.
What is Docker Certified Associate? What are the benefits of this Docker certification?
The Docker Certified Associate (DCA) exam validates your skills as an experienced Docker practitioner and serves as a basic benchmark of real-world Docker skills in the container industry. Professionals with this Docker certification are distinguished as uniquely qualified to run enterprise workloads at scale with Docker Enterprise Edition and can display the certification logo on their resume and social media profiles.
Who can benefit from this DCA certification?
- Cloud computing professionals
- Developers
- Solution architects
- Testers
- Release engineers
- System administrators
Training Objectives
At the end of this Docker Certified Associate online training, you will be able to:
- Understand Docker and its role in the DevOps lifecycle
- Create an image, describe the layers in the image, use Dockerfile and use the registry for security
- Defining and creating containers, swarms, volumes, networks and an overview of compose and template
- Create different types of networks and identify and distinguish different ports
- Define Docker security, identity roles, client packages and client-server authentication
- Explain Docker EE, UCP and DTR
- Understand the concepts of Docker engine, log drivers, graph drivers, storage drivers and device mappers
Skills covered
- Docker
- Image
- Containers
- Docker Service
- Docker Commit
- Docker commands
- Registry
- Cluster management and orchestration
- Swarm
- Node
- Network
- Storage and volumes
- Security
Certification tasks and criteria
Complete at least 85% of the course or participate in a full LVC batch
Pass one of the course final exams with at least 80%.
Curriculum
Lesson 01 - Introduction
- Introduction to training for Docker certification
- Docker read aloud
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to Docker
- Why Docker
- Overview of the certification exam
Lesson 02 - Understanding Docker
- Overview of how to understand Docker
- Docker architecture - engine and objects
- Docker architecture in action
- Container formats for Docker architecture
- Images and containers
- Containerization and virtualization
- The Docker ecosystem
Lesson 03 - Docker CE on the Linux platform
- Docker on the Linux platform
- Installation: CentOS
- Installation: continuation
- Deploy, log in, exit containers
- List, start, stop restart containers
- Containers on the file system
- Working with container hostnames
- Multiple containers
- Inspect statistics
- Deleting containers
Lesson 04 - Docker networking
- Docker network
- No network
- Network for containers
- Network for bridge
- Host networks
- Disconnecting and adding networks
- Introduction to overlay networks
- Creating new networks
- Exercise: Using customized networks
- Removing networks
- Multiple networks in the container
Lesson 05 - Docker images
- Docker images
- Docker Images: Summary
- CLI Commands for Docker Images
- Docker Images CLI Commands: Continued
- Finding and downloading images from Docker Hub
- Building images using Dockerfile
- Build image using Commit
- Push images to Docker Hub
- Instructions for Dockerfile
Lesson 06 - Docker Storage and Volumes
- Docker storage and volumes
- Docker storage drivers
- Choosing a storage driver
- Persistent storage
- Managing application data
- Docker volumes
- Docker Bind Assembly
- Docker tmpfs mount
- External storage
Lesson 07 - Docker Compose
- Docker Compose
- Arguments for Docker Compose
- Installation of Compose
- Labs for Compose
Lesson 08 - Orchestration Docker Swarm
- Docker Swarm
- Concept for Swarm
- Creating Swarm
- Maintaining Swarm
- Deploying services to Swarm
- Updates to services
- Managing Swarm services
- Secrets and overlay networks Docker stack
- Docker stack
Lesson 09 - Universal Control Plane
- Universal Control Plan
- Introduction to the UCP
- Implementing, managing and monitoring UCP
- Access control
- LDAP with UCP
- Client certificate package
- External certificates
Lesson 10 - Docker Trusted Registries
- Docker Trusted Registries
- Introduction Deploying the DTR
- Backing up the Swarm UCP DTR
- Miscellaneous topics with DTR
Lesson 11 - Security
- Docker security logs
- Security scanning
- Trust in Docker content
- Security with MTLS
- Logs and drivers for logging
Lesson 12 - The DCA test
- How to take the test
Upcoming start dates
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