Mesosphere DC/OS Kickstart Training

Format: Live, instructor led

Audience: DC/OS evaluators, operators and/or administrators

Prerequisites:

• 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)

Workshop Outline

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

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