Docker Academy · Interactive Architecture Studio

Network Flow Designer

Trace ingress, east-west, egress and administrative traffic through security and availability controls.

Objective: Create precise network-flow documentation suitable for design and change review.

Practical guidance

Plan and design

01

Inventory sources, destinations, protocols and ports

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02

Classify trust zones and data sensitivity

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03

Identify DNS, proxy, firewall and load-balancing dependencies

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Practical guidance

Build and validate

01

Draw normal and failure-state flows

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02

Validate asymmetric routing and name resolution

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03

Test observability and troubleshooting points

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Practical guidance

Evidence and review

01

Create firewall-rule evidence

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02

Record flow owners and review dates

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03

Publish an operational troubleshooting map

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