15:15 Introductory event, room C055

• Introduction to the course (servmgmt00-en.pdf)
• Preliminary discussion of practical task 1 (pr01-homelab-server.html)

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Lecture part:

• Presentation 1: What is a Service? (servmgmt01-What_is_a_Service-en.pdf, Leischner)
• Presentation 2: GIT (Bepperling/Glaser)
• Content: Recording changes to the repository, working with remotes, origin/master, commit history, checkout, fetch, push, pull, pull request, branching, merging, rebasing.

Practical part:

From 13:30 to 15:00: Group A (Bepperlin, Glaser), Group B (Wehner, Hünsler), Group C (Nabhan, Resch)

From 17:00 to 18:30: Group D (Nkikam, Schröder, Chukwunonyerem), Group E (Kalash, Aloush), Group F (Arafat, Mursalin)

• Talking about requirements for the homelab.
• Building up the homelab. Further steps.
• Preliminary discussion of practical task 2 (pr02-homelab-basic-system.html)
• Which GIT to chose for the lab work?

Lecture part:

• Presentation 2 (continued): GIT (Bepperling/Glaser)
• Short presentation/discussion 3: Explanation of Terms: NetOps, DevOps, Provisioning, etc. (Leischner, servmgmt02-Nmgt vs. NetOps vs.DevOps - CM vs. Provisioning.pdf)

Practical part:

• Organisation: Assignment of presentation and project topics (see list).
• Each student briefly presents his base server as well as the requirement list for it.
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 3 (pr03-git.html)

Lecture part:

• Presentation 4: Introduction to Linux Namespaces (Leischner, servmgmt04-name_spaces.pdf).
• Presentation 5: Basics of Docker + Demo (Chukwunonyerem).
• literature base: Nigel Poulton: Docker Deep Dive, Kindle Edition, 2018

Practical part:

• Review of practice sheet 3
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 4 (pr04-ansible_taster.html)

Lecture part:

• Presentation 6: Docker Overlay Networks (Celik/Sieben)
• Literature base:
• - Nigel Poulton: Demystifying Docker overlay networking, 2016.
• - Laurent Bernaille: Deep dive into Docker Overlay Networks: Part 1, Apr 2017.
• - Laurent Bernaille: Deep dive into Docker Overlay Networks: Part 2, May 2017.
• - Laurent Bernaille: Deep dive into Docker Overlay Networks: Part 3, Aug 2017.

Practical part:

• Review of practice sheet 4
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 5 (pr05-ansible.html)

Lecture part:

• Demo for Presentation 6: Docker Overlay Networks (Celik/Sieben)
• Presentation 7: Docker Container Networks (Hünseler/Wehner)
• Literature base:
• - Docker Reference Architecture: Designing Scalable, Portable Docker Container Networks.
• - Docker docs: Configure networking.

Practical part:

• Reading material for next week: reading01-ansible.html.
• Discussion/review of practice sheet 5.
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 6 (pr06-vagrant-shell-prov.html).

Lecture part:

• Demo for Presentation 7: Docker Container Networks (Hünseler/Wehner)
• Presentation 8: Docker Compose (Bala, Menjli).

Practical part:

• Discussion of reading01-ansible.html.
• Discussion/review of practice sheet 6.
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 7 (pr07-dockhost-prov.html).

Lecture part:

• Presentation 9:  Orchestration with Docker Swarm  (Schröder).
• Literature base: Vohra, Deepak: Docker Management Design Patterns [Online-Ressource] : Swarm Mode on Amazon Web Services, 2017.

Practical part:

• Discussion of reading integrated in pr07.
• Discussion/review of practice sheet 7.
• Reading material for next week: reading02a-docker_container_networks.html
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 8 (pr08-webserver_PHP.html)

Lecture part:

• Presentation 10: Prometheus Monitoring - From metrics to insight  (Resch).
• Literature base:
• - Kufel Lukasz: Tools for distributed systems monitoring. Foundations of computing and decision science, No 4, 2016..
• - Martin Gerhard Loschwitz: Prometheus-Tutorial Teil 1-3, heise iX 8, 9, 10, 2018.

Practical part:

• Discussion/review of practice sheet 8.
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 9 (pr09-WebApp.html)

Lecture part:

• Presentation 11: Load Balancing - Concepts & Implementation in Docker (Omofoyewa/Ezenobi).
• Literature base:
  - D. Suresh Kumar et al: A literature review on load balancing mechansims in cloud computing. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, 9 (1), Jan-Feb 2018,432-435.
• - Marian Rusek, Grzegorz Dwornicki, and Arkadiusz Orlowski: Decentralized System for Load Balancing of Containerized Microservices in the Cloud, ResearchGate, 2017.
• - peplink: Load Balancing Methods & Algorithms .
• - Docker docs: Use swarm mode routing mesh .

Practical part:

• Reflection and discussion of reading02a-docker_container_networks.html (chaired by M. Leischner)
• Reading material for next week: reading02b-docker_container_networks.html + reading02c-docker_container_networks.html
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 10 (pr10-DockerSwarmLab.html)
• Workshop on practice sheet 9: State of progress, exchange of experience, mutual support.

Lecture part:

• Presentation 9 (supplementary): The Raft Consensus Algorithm in docker swarm mode (Schröder)
• Literature base: The Raft Consensus Algorithm. Retrieved Dec 1, 18 from https://raft.github.io. Animation: http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/ .
• Presentation 10 (supplementary): Microservice Monitoring  (Resch).
• Literature base: Augusto Ciuffoletti: Automated deployment of a microservice-based monitoring infrastructure, Procedia Computer Science 68 ( 2015 ) 163 – 172.
• Presentation 12: Content delivery networks  (Nkikam).
• Literature first introduction: Imperva: The Essential CDN Guide
• Literature base: D Sarkar, N Rakesh, KK Mishra: Content delivery networks: Insights and recent advancement, Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC), 2016.

Practical part:

• Reflection and discussion of reading02b-docker_container_networks.html (chaired by Bala, Alluosh)
• Reflection and discussion of reading02c-docker_container_networks.html (chaired by Wehner, Omofoyewa)
• Reading material: Docker Reference Architecture: Design Considerations and Best Practices to Modernize Traditional Apps (MTA).
• Preliminary discussion of practice sheet 11 (pr11-LoadBalancer.html)

Lecture part:

• Presentation 13: Networking and Hypervisor with SDN (Nakeu).
• Literature base: Andreas Blenk, Arsany Basta, Martin Reisslein, Fellow, IEEE, and Wolfgang Kellerer: Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS, VOL. 18, NO. 1, FIRST QUARTER 2016.
• Presentation 14: Kubernetes (Alloush).
• Reflection and discussion 15: Service Discovery for Docker (chaired by Bepperling/Glaser).
• Literature base:
• - Kim Bao Long , HyunSik Yang, YoungHan Kim: ICN-based Service Discovery Mechanism for Microservice Architecture, ICUFN, 2017.
• - Docker Reference Architecture: Universal Control Plane 3.0 Service Discovery and Load Balancing.
• - Docker doc: Service discovery and links.

Practical part: Status of team projects / Individual review of the developed lab environment DockerSwarmLab according to following schedule:

• 13:30-14:00: Bepperling/Glaser/Resch
• 14:00-14:30: Hünsler/Wehner
• 14:30-15:00: Nakeu/Bala
• 17:00-17:30: Nkikam/Schröder
• 17:30-18:00: Celik/Sieben
• 18:00-18:30: Alloush/Omofoyewa

Lecture part:

• Presentations on projects

Practical part:

• Reflection and discussion of  Docker Reference Architecture: Design Considerations and Best Practices to Modernize Traditional Apps (MTA) (chaired by N.N.)

Lecture part:

• Presentations on project

Lecture part:

• repetition lesson