Christmas CoreOS Meetup & Workshop
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We're very pleased to announce our next CoreOS London meetup on Tuesday 6th December. Many thanks to uSwitch for hosting the event!
This time we're excited to be able to announce that we are trying a new format and will be holding a free workshop before the meetup.
We are very lucky to have Sergiusz Urbaniak and Elsie Phillips from CoreOS with us to be giving this hands-on session. All are welcome to attend this technical workshop, so make sure you RSVP quickly!
Workshop - from 4:30pm
CoreOS rkt is a secure, modular execution engine for app containers. It was designed to reflect the lessons of running container cluster infrastructure at scale and is released under the Apache license. Written in Go, rkt implements container isolation through a flexible and interchangeable set of “stages,” providing multiple execution regimes for a container image. At rkt’s core is a command line utility that does not invoke a long-running daemon process, making app container lifecycle management simpler and allowing loosely-coupled integrations with service management and orchestration systems like systemd and Kubernetes.
This talk will review the design of rkt, outline the current state of portable container image standards, and demonstrate rkt’s operation. After this introduction, developers will be able to run their containers with rkt, and begin to contribute to rkt themselves.
Talks - from 6:30pm
Firstly we're very happy to be welcoming Gareth Rushgrove, Senior Software Engineer at Puppet who will be giving the talk: "Using Puppet to Manage CoreOS: What? Why? How?"
After that, join Sergiusz Urbaniak and Elsie Phillips from CoreOS for an overview of the rkt container engine and the container format standards efforts it drives. This software highlight reel will focus on how and why rkt was designed, the current state of portable container image standards like OCI, and what that history means for rkt’s future as it becomes a first-class container engine for Kubernetes compute nodes.
Look forward to seeing you there,
David and Antony