Rocket and the App Container Spec - by a CoreOS engineer

We'll have the honor to hear Jonathan Boulle (Senior Engineer at CoreOS) give a talk on CoreOS and Rocket for our First Edition of this meetup. This meetup is kindly hosted by Deutsche Post E-Post and organized by Chris Kühl.

Talk starts at 7pm and will be given in English. Doors will be open at 6:30pm and after the talk you can have some food, mate, beer and some time to talk and network.

• Rocket and the App Container Spec - by Jonathan Boulle:

Rocket is a simple daemon-free tool that enables users to run containerized apps on their systems free of host dependencies. Containers running under rocket execute like regular processes and can be managed using existing process management tools like upstart, systemd, runit, and etc.

Rocket is also an implementation of the "App Container Spec" which defines how to define and build containerized applications based on tooling like tar and pgp. And then host these files easily using standard protocols like HTTP. The goal of the spec is to enable independent and creative implementations of container runtimes and build tools.

Speaker bio:

Jonathan Boulle is helping to build modern Linux server infrastructure at CoreOS. Previously, he worked at Twitter building out new datacenters and developing their cluster management platform based on Mesos. At CoreOS, Jonathan is one of the lead developers on fleet, a distributed init system for clusters, and has contributed heavily to etcd, a distributed key-value store. Most recently, he's taken a leading role in developing the App Container Specification and Rocket, the first container runtime for the spec. He's passionate about Linux, golang, open source, and scale.