In this workshop, you will setup your own Docker cluster, and use it to deploy and scale a sample application architectured around microservices. We will explain the concepts and features of SwarmKit (the library powering Swarm mode), and give guidelines and best practices to setup your cluster. Then, we will cover more advanced operational topics.

Chapters will include:

- SwarmKit concepts: services, workers, managers, and more;

- setting up a cluster and deciding how many and which nodes should be managers;

- deploying a self-hosted registry;

- scaling services using different placement strategies;

- load balancing HTTP traffic with the built-in IPVS load balancer;

- rolling out new versions of the code;

- automating deployment tasks with Compose;

- sending container logs to a self-hosted ELK stack;

- collecting and graphing metrics with Prometheus;

- transparent encryption of container network traffic;

... and more!