Docker on AWS

Welcome to 2015. Our first meetup of the year is a doozy. Come and hear from 3 amazing speakers at the forefront of running Docker on AWS.

Presentations

Docker in Production: Reality, Not Hype
DramaFever (http://www.dramafever.com/) uses AWS to power our streaming video platform. We've been running Docker in production since about October 2013 (well before it even went 1.0). Bridget will give an overview of how we use it to make development more consistent and deployment more repeatable.

Bridget Kromhout (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout) is an operations engineer at DramaFever, the largest streaming video site for international content. She co-hosts the Arrested DevOps podcast, co-organizes devopsdays Minneapolis, and helps wrangle speakers for the Twin Cities DevOps and AWS meetups.

Atlantis, a new cloud deploy and application management system
Cædman 'cads’ Oakley from Ooyala (http://www.ooyala.com/) will present Atlantis, a new Docker-based deployment system which makes it easy to safely deploy applications in the cloud, flexibly configure routing among multiple versions, and handle dependencies among applications in multiple environments.

AWS Elastic Container Service
Ben Whaley (https://twitter.com/iamthewhaley), an AWS Community Hero (http://aws.amazon.com/heroes/), will give us an overview of the new container service announced at AWS re:invent.

Schedule

6:00pm Food and drinks by Boundary
6:25pm Intro and announcements
6:30pm Bridget - Docker in Production
7:15pm cads - Ooyala's internal Docker PaaS
8:00pm Ben - AWS ECS Overview
8:30pm Networking
9:00pm Get out of the building

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