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Docker Certified Associate

Live Online & Classroom Enterprise Training

The Docker Certified Associate (DCA) is a professional-level certification designed for IT professionals with foundational Docker knowledge. It validates your expertise in containerization, image creation, orchestration, networking, and security using Docker. Ideal for DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators, the DCA certification demonstrates your ability to work with Docker in real-world production environments and is a great step toward mastering container-based development.

Overview

The Docker Certified Associate (DCA) certification is designed for professionals looking to validate their skills in Docker containerization and cloud-native technologies. This certification covers essential topics such as image creation, container management, orchestration with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes basics, networking, storage, and security. Tailored for DevOps practitioners, developers, and system administrators, the DCA serves as a benchmark for working with Docker in enterprise environments. It’s the ideal next step after completing foundational training, showcasing your readiness for real-world container-based development and deployment.

 

What You’ll Learn:

In our Docker Certified Associate (DCA) course at EyesOnCloud, you’ll gain advanced, production-ready Docker skills and prepare to ace the DCA exam. This course is designed to help you apply Docker in real-world DevOps environments with confidence. Here’s what you’ll learn:

Advanced Containerization Concepts: Deepen your understanding of containers, image layering, and Docker’s internal architecture, including namespaces, cgroups, and the Docker object model.

Image Creation, Management & Registry: Learn how to write efficient Dockerfiles, optimize image size, manage multi-stage builds, and work with both public and private container registries.

Docker Networking: Master Docker’s networking drivers, including bridge, host, and overlay. Understand service discovery, DNS resolution, and configuring secure container communication.

Volumes & Persistent Storage: Explore Docker storage options like bind mounts, named volumes, and storage plugins. Learn how to persist data and manage storage in standalone and clustered setups.

Orchestration with Docker Swarm: Get hands-on with Docker Swarm for container orchestration. Learn how to deploy multi-node clusters, manage services, perform rolling updates, and ensure high availability.

Security & Best Practices: Secure your Docker environment by applying industry best practices. Learn about image scanning, user permissions, secrets management, and Docker Content Trust.

Monitoring, Logging & Troubleshooting: Discover tools and techniques to monitor containers, view logs, analyze resource usage, and troubleshoot common Docker issues in production environments.

Our DCA course is structured to be practical, exam-focused, and immersive—giving you the expertise to pass the DCA exam and thrive as a Docker professional in modern DevOps teams.

Course Outline

Docker Introduction
  • Introduction to Docker 
  • Docker Architecture
  • Docker Components
Docker Installation

Hardware and Software Requirements

Installing Docker

Configuring Docker

Managing Container Lifecycle

Managing Containers

Container Metrcis via Stats

Limiting Memory and CPU utilization

Storage utilization of a Container

Working with Docker Images
  • Searching, Filtering and Pulling Images
  • backup and restore image
  • Building Images
  • Working with Docker Hub
Docker Volume Management
  • Creating and Managing Volumes
  • Running Persistant Application Containers
Dcoker Networking
  • Managing docker networking
  • working with Network Plug-ins
Dcoker Compose
  • Introduction to compose
  • understanding Docker-compose File
  • Use-cases
Docker Engine Security
  • Docker Daemon Security
  • Namespaces and Capabilities
  • CGroups 
  • Resource Limits CPU
  • Resource Limits Memory
Docker Swarm
  • intro to Docker Swarm
  • Demo to Docker Swarm