Let's talk Storage...

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The state of volumes in the Docker Ecosystem

The elephant in the room... persisting data with Docker containers. By now, people are getting familiar with stateless services in Docker, but having something stateful in Docker is still a tough challenge.

We'll start of with a brief introduction in which we'll have a look at the possibilities you have, when it comes to working with data in Docker containers.

The Infinit Storage Platform, by Julien Quintard (CEO of Infinit)

HOT OF THE PRESS: Docker Acquires Infinit (https://blog.docker.com/2016/12/docker-acquires-infinit/)

Providing state to applications in Docker requires a backend storage component that is both scalable and resilient in order to cope with a variety of use cases and failure scenarios. The Infinit Storage Platform (http://infinit.sh) has been designed to provide Docker applications with a set of interfaces (block, file and object) allowing for different tradeoffs. This talk will go through the design principles behind Infinit and demonstrate how the platform can be used to deploy a storage infrastructure through Docker containers in a few command lines.

Julien Quintard is the CEO of Infinit. Prior to Infinit, he was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, researching the possibility to rely on millions of untrustworthy computers (Byzantine fault tolerance) to provide a reliable storage service (POSIX-compliant file system) in a completely decentralized way (peer-to-peer).