Docker DCA - Docker Certified Associate (DCA) Exam

To trust a self-signed certificate from a Docker Trusted Registry (DTR), you need to place the certificate in the appropriate location on all cluster nodes and restart the Docker daemon. There are two possible locations for the certificate, depending on your OS and Docker version1:

•/etc/docker/certs.d/dtr.example.com/ca.crt: This is the preferred location for Linux systems and Docker versions 1.13 and higher. This directory is scanned by Docker for certificates and keys for each registry domain2.

•Your OS certificate path: This is the fallback location for other OSes and Docker versions. You need to find the certificate store for your OS and copy the certificate there. You also need to trust the certificate system-wide, which may require additional steps depending on your OS3.

The other options are not correct because:

•Passing '-trust-certificate ca.crt to the Docker client is not a valid option. There is no such flag for the Docker client4.

•Placing the certificate in ‘/etc/docker/dtr/dtr.example.com.crt’ is not a valid location. The certificate should be in the /etc/docker/certs.d directory, not the /etc/docker/dtr directory1.

•Passing – insecure-registry to the Docker client is not a recommended option. This flag disables the TLS verification for the registry, which makes the communication insecure and vulnerable to attacks.

= This is not how the seven managers should be distributed across three datacenters or availability zones. A swarm cluster is a group of Docker hosts that are running in swarm mode and act as managers or workers1. A manager node is responsible for maintainingthe swarm state and orchestrating the services2. A swarm cluster needs a quorum of managers to operate, which means a majority of managers must be available and able to communicate with each other3.

The problem with distributing the seven managers as 4-2-1 is that it creates a split-brain scenario, where the cluster can lose the quorum if one datacenter or availability zone fails. For example, if the datacenter with four managers goes down, the remaining three managers will not have enough votes to form a quorum, and the cluster will stop functioning. Similarly, if the datacenter with one manager goes down, the cluster will lose the tie-breaking vote and will not be able to elect a leader4.

A better way to distribute the seven managers across three datacenters or availability zones is to use 3-2-2, which ensures that the cluster can tolerate the failure of any one datacenter or availability zone and still maintain the quorum. For example, if the datacenter with three managers goes down, the remaining four managers will have enough votes to form a quorum and elect a leader. Similarly, if the datacenter with two managers goes down, the remaining five managers will have enough votes to form a quorum and elect a leader4. References:

Swarm mode overview | Docker Docs

Administer and maintain a swarm of Docker Engines | Docker Docs

Raft consensus in swarm mode | Docker Docs

Docker Swarm: How to distribute managers across availability zones? - Stack Overflow

 Network is a type of Linux kernel namespace that provides container isolation. Network namespaces isolate the system resources associated with networking, such as network interfaces, IP addresses, routing tables, firewall rules, etc. Each network namespace has its own virtual network stack, and processes in different network namespaces can communicate through virtual network devices or tunnels1. Network namespaces are used by Docker to create isolated networks for containers, and allow users to customize the network configuration and connectivity of each container2. References:

network_namespaces(7) - Linux manual page

Docker network overview | Docker Documentation

The statement is incorrect because it does not mention the service name or the clusterIP address. Traffic sent to the IP of any pod with the label app: nginx on port 8080 will not be forwarded to port 80 in that pod, unless the traffic is coming from another pod within the same cluster that knows the pod IP. To access the service from outside the cluster, the traffic must be sent to the clusterIP address of the service, which is assigned by Kubernetes, and the port 8080 of the service, which is defined in the yaml file. The service will then forward the traffic to one of the selected pods on port 80.

To summarize, the correct statement should be:

Traffic sent to the clusterIP address of the service dca on port 8080 will be forwarded to port 80 in one of the pods with the label app: nginx.

= Creating a collection for each application is not a way to accomplish this. A collection is a term used by Ansible to describe a package of related content that can be used to automate the management of Kubernetes resources1. A collection is not a native Kubernetes concept and does not group resources together within the cluster. To group Kubernetes-specific resources, such as secrets, for each application, you need to use namespaces. A namespace is a logical partition of the cluster that allows you to isolate resources and apply policies to them2. You can create a namespace for each application and store the secrets and other resources in that namespace. This way, you can prevent conflicts and limit access to the resources of each application. To create a namespace, you can use the kubectl create namespace command or a yaml file2. To create a secret within a namespace, you can use the kubectl create secret commandwith the --namespace option or a yaml file with the metadata.namespace field3. References:

Kubernetes Collection for Ansible - GitHub

Namespaces | Kubernetes

Secrets | Kubernetes

Managing Secrets using kubectl | Kubernetes

Docker’s bridge network allows containers connected to the same bridge network to communicate, while providing isolation from containers that aren’t connected to that bridge network1.By using thenetwork attachcommand, you can connect a container to the bridge network, making it reachable from the host’s network12.However, it’s important to note that containers on the default bridge network can only access each other by IP addresses, unless you use the--linkoption, which is considered legacy2.For better isolation and automatic DNS resolution between containers, it’s recommended to use user-defined bridge networks12.

= Distributing seven managers across three datacenters or availability zones as 3-3-1 is not the best way to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. This is because if one of the datacenters with three managers fails, the remaining four managers will not have a quorum to elect a leader and continue the swarm operations. A quorum is the minimum number of managers that must be available to maintain the swarm state, and it is calculated as (N/2) + 1, where N is the total number of managers1. For seven managers, the quorum is five, so losing three managers will cause the swarm to lose the quorum. A better way to distribute seven managers across three datacenters or availability zones is 2-2-3, which will allow the swarm to survive the failure of any one datacenter2. References:

Administer and maintain a swarm of Docker Engines

Distribute manager nodes across multiple AZ

PAM is not a supported user authentication method for Universal Control Plane. According to the official documentation, the supported methods are LDAP, Active Directory, SAML 2.0, and local users.

The strategy will not successfully accomplish mounting the /data directory on your laptop into a container. The containers. Mounts. hostBinding: /data is not a valid syntax for specifying a bind mount in a Kubernetes container specification. According to the Kubernetes documentation), the correct way to mount a host directory into a container is to use a hostPath volume, which takes a path parameter that specifies the location on the host. For example, to mount the /data directory on your laptop into a container at /var/data, you can use the following YAML snippet:

spec:

containers:

-name:my-container

image:my-image

volumeMounts:

-name:data-volume

mountPath:/var/data

volumes:

-name:data-volume

hostPath:

path:/data

Volumes), Use bind mounts)