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Docker Certified Associate (DCA): Exam Guide

You're reading from   Docker Certified Associate (DCA): Exam Guide Enhance and validate your Docker skills by gaining Docker certification

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211898
Length 612 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - Key Container Concepts
2. Modern Infrastructures and Applications with Docker FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Docker Images 4. Running Docker Containers 5. Container Persistency and Networking 6. Deploying Multi-Container Applications 7. Introduction to Docker Content Trust 8. Section 2 - Container Orchestration
9. Introduction to Orchestration 10. Orchestration Using Docker Swarm 11. Orchestration Using Kubernetes 12. Section 3 - Docker Enterprise
13. Introduction to the Docker Enterprise Platform 14. Universal Control Plane 15. Publishing Applications in Docker Enterprise 16. Implementing an Enterprise-Grade Registry with DTR 17. Section 4 - Preparing for the Docker Certified Associate Exam
18. Summarizing Important Concepts 19. Mock Exam Questions and Final Notes 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scaling and updating application components

Orchestrators provide another great feature. If my application is prepared to run more than one instance of some components, the orchestrator will help us easily manage this replication. This is easy because components are based on containers, so if we need to run more than one replica of a component, we can ask the orchestrator to execute more containers. In fact, this feature is key because, in orchestration, we define an application component with the number of required healthy replicas. If all required replicas are alive, that application component will be healthy. If one replica dies, a new one will be executed to ensure that the required number is accomplished.

The management of replicas is one of the features provided by orchestrators. If application performance is compromised and application logic allows replication, we will be able to scale up or down the number of replicas or instances of a component.

On the other hand, we learned...

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