AdvancedAWS: Contain Yourself

Docker, containers & AWS - this meetup shows you how use them effectively.

Speakers

Talk 1: Heavy Containers
Mark Lavi (http://mlavi.github.io/about/), Technology Evangelist, Calm.io

In these early years of containers, "heavy containers" represent a typical approach which resembles virtual machines, includes the operating system user land, and desires configuration management. Does this starting point represent the opposite of container promise and the journey to immutable infrastructure?

Talk 2: Empire, the PaaS on top of AWS ECS
Mike Barrett (https://github.com/phobologic) & Eric Holmes (https://github.com/ejholmes), Remind

In this session we will introduce you to a new self-hosted PaaS built on top of Amazon’s EC2 Container Service (ECS). Empire is an open-sourced project providing a mostly-Heroku-compatible API. It allows teams to deploy and manage applications in a method similar to Heroku, but with the added flexibility and control of running your own AWS ECS container instances. You will be introduced to this platform's private services security model, along with its ELB & Route53 based internal service discovery system. We will walk you through porting a simple app to Docker, then move on to deploying & scaling it in your personal Empire environment.

Schedule

6:00pm Food and drinks by ClearScale
6:30pm Greetings & Announcements
6:45pm Talk 1: Heavy Containers
7:30pm Talk 2: Empire
8:15pm Networking and maybe 1 more beer
9:00pm Get out of the building

Sponsors

ClearScale (http://www.clearscale.net/) helps companies get the most out of cloud. We are a full service cloud systems integration firm offering the complete range of cloud services from strategy and design to implementation and ongoing management. We are one of only a handful of AWS Premier Consulting Partners because of our proven capability to build, deploy, and manage complex cloud architectures on AWS. We specialize in deployments with ambitious goals and hard deadlines. We use cutting-edge tech in all of our projects, including Docker, Chef, and the latest from AWS. Visit www.clearscale.net (http://www.clearscale.net/) for more info.

BTW -- We're hiring now for multiple positions in the Bay Area: http://www.clearscale.net/company/careers

New Relic (http://newrelic.com/) is a Software Analytics company that makes sense of billions of metrics across millions of apps. From your app to the container, and the container to your server, New Relic offers visibility into the performance of containerized applications.