Abstract

Format

Live, instructor led

DC/OS evaluators, operators and/or administrators

Basic understanding of containerization (Docker)
General Linux system administration and command line understanding and knowledge (bash)
Basic skills in SSH and command line text editors (e.g. Vim, pico)
A laptop with SSH client (OpenSSH, PuTTY) and web browser (Chrome, Mozilla, Safari)

10:00 - 10:30 - Core Concepts

Examine the data center operating system paradigm
Discuss cluster concepts including messaging, cluster deployment, application deployment and scalability

10:30 - 11:00 - Component Review

List and describe the functionality of DC/OS cluster components
Discuss components involved in various operational states of a cluster through deployment and operational lifecycle

11:00 - 11:30 - DC/OS Architecture

Discuss cluster architectures and components within a DC/OS cluster
Explore various mechanisms for messaging and communication within a cluster environment
Examine load-balancing, service discovery and various networking solutions with DC/OS

11:30 - 12:00 - Demo

12:00 - 2:00 - Workshop (lunch will be provided)

Deploy DC/OS in an AWS (shared) environment with student groups having their own dedicated VM instances for their DC/OS cluster
Login and explore the DC/OS environment
Install and use the DC/OS CLI
Install and instantiate a Marathon task from the CLI - compare the GUI for the same operation
Install Wordpress and MySQL from the GUI
Launch a Docker task with Marathon
Review health checks
Investigate Marathon monitoring and metrics
Install and configure Marathon-LB (Load Balancer, HAProxy based)
Adding and removing nodes from the cluster
Overall cluster monitoring and management