Creating a High Available Docker Based PaaS using Stackato and Amazon AWS

Having a Docker container is not enough. When we laid our hands on Docker for the first time in 2013, we were thrilled by the simplicity and elegancy of it. It was easy to see how Docker laid the foundation for creating a Platform as a Service. At the same time it was also immediately clear, that it the entire eco-system for managing and orchestrating a PaaS within an enterprise was not part of Docker. And let's face it: the management and orchestration stuff is where all the complexity is! Many people have now started to use Docker in production and are building a home-grown infrastructure based on it. But that is not the way to go: It is way too slow and way to expensive.

Although there are probably hundreds of PaaS initiatives right now that you can try to take into production, in this workshop we are going to create a high available Docker platform as a Service, using Stackato and Amazon AWS. Stackato is based on Cloud Foundry can be installed on many IaaS: we only use Amazon AWS because it saves us from having to bring physical hardware with us :-)

In this workshop you will gradually build up to a multi-availability zone deployment. In the process you will learn the features of the PaaS and learn about Amazon’s availability zones, VPCs, subnets, security groups and more!

Agenda

18:00-18:30 Dinner

18:30 - 21:30 Hands-on Workshop - Stackato / Amazon AWS

Pre-requisites

You will need to bring your own brain & laptop! we will take care of food & drinks, WiFi, Amazon account etc. etc.