CoreOS Ignition (Provisioning) & Evolute Chrysalis (Enterprise Containers)

CoreOS.com - Ignition by Josh Wood

Ignition is an atomic machine provisioning utility designed at CoreOS to replace and improve on cloudinit for flexible configuration of CoreOS Linux nodes at — and only at — first boot. Ignition provisions storage, from partitioning to RAID arrangement; networking; systems groups and users; and systemd service units. We’ll detail Ignition’s operation in the very early boot process, how it preserves a coherent systemd dependency graph, and how the JSON configuration format used by Ignition helps avoid the pitfalls of cloud-config YAML by being easier to programmatically generate and validate.

Josh Wood’s passion for the rkt container runtime led him to CoreOS, where he is responsible for documentation. When procrastinating, Josh enjoys photographing polydactyl cats and writing short autobiographies.
You can find Josh on twitter: @joshixisjosh9

Evolute.io - Chrysalis - Kristopher Francisco

Chrysalis allows you to convert a VM-based application to a container in under 3 minutes. From core *nix applications based on your favorite version of libc to scale out, java-based applications (e.g. Spark/Kafka), this tool greatly reduces the path to native containerization.

Kristopher Francisco, Founder and CTO of Evolute will be talking about the intricacies of migrating applications. In this talk, we’ll address the fundamental differences between the two predominant hypervisor technologies at every layer of OSI. From virtual SCSI adapters and VMFS over to virtual ethernet devices and btrfs, Kristopher will discuss the capabilities of this recent patent allowing application developers to maintain code consistency across different platforms and enabling operations engineers to move entire virtualization clusters over natively to containers.

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