CoreOS: An Overview

CoreOS: An Introduction by Brian Harrington

The architectural patterns of a large scale platform are changing. Dedicated VMs and configuration management tools are being replaced by containerization and new service management technologies like systemd.

This presentation will give an overview of their key technologies, including etcd, schedulers (mesos, kubernetes, etc), and containers (nspawn, docker, rocket). Come and learn how to use these new technologies to build performant, reliable, large distributed systems.

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Brian Harrington, also known as Redbeard, is a principal architect at CoreOS. He is developer, hacker, and technical writer in the areas of open-source development and systems administration. His time spent in both defensive and offensive computing have combined with his readings of classical anarchism to present new ideas in organizational hierarchies for software development. He has been featured on Al Jazeera as an expert in the field of computer security, and has been seen and heard on Bloomberg Television and National Public Radio. He currently resides in Oakland, CA and was grudgingly elected president of the hackerspace HacDC.