Introduction to the DCOS

In this very special evening, we'll be taking a very close look at Mesosphere's DCOS (https://mesosphere.com/product/). We have four expert speakers, each of whom bring a unique perspective. Frank and Phil will look at how to design, implement and verify a framework for the DCOS.

Jamie will have a look at what happens within an organisation as they try to ready themselves for a seriously disruptive technology.

Finally, Michael will take centre stage, providing us with a tour of the DCOS, its features and the great advantage it create for the companies that use it.

Introducing the DCOS
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is now in General Availability and we will have a look at what it offers, from service discovery to PaaS and Big Data. Using Apache Mesos as its kernel, the DCOS enables users to run a variety of workloads in parallel and we discuss typical DCOS use cases from different perspectives: operations, developers and data scientists. A DCOS demo and Q&A session will be part of this session.

About Michael
Michael is a Datacenter Application Architect with Mesosphere. He helps devops to build and operate scalable & elastic distributed applications. His background is in large-scale data integration, Hadoop & NoSQL, IoT, as well as Web applications and he's experienced in advocacy and standardization. Michael is contributing to open source software at Apache (Myriad, Drill) and shares his experience with the Datacenter OS and large-scale data processing through blog posts and public speaking engagements.

Mesos Framework Design, Implementation and Verification
Although Mesos and the DCOS work fantastically out the box, every now and then users want and need to write custom applications. Mesos applications are called ‘frameworks’. The way to write them is by creating an scheduler and executor.

Despite this devilishly simple concept, there are a few things to watch out for and in fact there are already a set of best practices emerging around framework development.

Frank and Phil will explain these practices, which include using a containerised Mesos cluster and Docker Compose to carry out rapid system deployment and testing.

Finally, Frank and Phil will explain the process needed to verify a framework for the DCOS.

About Frank and Phil
Frank is a senior engineer at Container Solutions, a company that specialises in programmable infrastructure. He is the creator and lead engineer for the Elasticsearch framework for Mesos.

Phil works for Trifork, a technical consultancy with offices in Europe and the US. Phil led the project to get the Elasticsearch framework verified for the DCOS.

DCOS Readiness - A Strategy for Succeeding with Mesos and the DCOS
Many companies want to use the DCOS or Mesos. More than that, they nearly always want flawless deployments, zero down time, happy teams and containerized applications.

Companies tend to shoot for the stars without considering proximate goals, the order in which they should pursue them and indeed if they are even capable of pursuing them. This talk will focus on the steps that companies must make if they are to succeed with programmable infrastructure and later the DCOS. We’ll look at one company that got this very right, one that got it very wrong. Additionally, we'll look at the systematic approach that Container Solutions follows when helping its customers to ready themselves for the DCOS.

About Jamie
Jamie is the CEO of Container Solutions, where he helps management teams and executives to ‘win’ with technology.