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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Establish and set up container orchestration services (COS)
   • Assess business specifications, application and business needs for container orchestration services (COS) with required personnel
   • Obtain and review infrastructure requirements and technical specifications for using container technologies according to business needs
   • Research and select suitable vendor (COS) software according to business needs
   • Install COS on host computer or virtual machine
   • Add host computers/virtual machines/nodes using COS
   • Select and promote node to manage and host all nodes
   • Set up and confirm group of nodes run as required
   • Add different types of images/containers to the service
   • Name and move containers as required
   • Create pod/swarm and run container in pod
   • Configure scaling policy according to business need
   • Use instrumentation to configure scaling in and out according to business needs
   • Test and confirm container set up, function of containers and required resources
   • Finalise and create user documentation according to business needs
2. Test and maintain container service
   • Configure load tester to port
   • Register containers to central point
   • Use load balancer to retrieve container requests
   • Test requests and ensure load testing works as required
3. Manage containers according to business need
   • Experiment with different volumes of traffic to sites
   • Monitor and record metrics
   • Add and delete containers as required according to CPU, RAM, network traffic readings and business need
   • Set up container trigger alarms according to metrics and business needs
   • Create user documentation according to business need
   • Report metrics and business impact with required personnel

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

configure container orchestration services on at least two host computers or virtual machines

create and manage at least two containers using at least three different metrics to measure requests and traffic data.

In the course of the above, the candidate must:

confirm clusters scale out and in required by demand changes and business needs

document work.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

features and functions of operating systems

continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment methodology, processes and principles

network protocols including:

network communications protocol

TCP/IP (transmission control)

internet protocol

tools and features of registries, command line interface and text editor

software development life cycle (SDLC)

basic principles of container orchestration services:

pods/swarms

nodes

services

virtual machines and containers

container dependencies

basic principles of:

computer hardware, networking, operating system, database management systems, cloud solutions and components

applications

database-management systems

open-source development tools

HTTP

organisational business needs relating to the use and deployment of containers, including cost constraints

data flow charts applicable to installing and configuring container orchestration services

data and metrics of user traffic to sites and applications, including:

RAM (random access memory)

CPU

Network traffic

different methods of monitoring services, including:

manually

different organisational levels of responsibility relating to application functions.

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