Containers, Containers, Containers

Let’s dive into the growing ecosystem of containers!

Agenda:

19:00–19:20: Eat, drink, mingle

19:20–19:30: Introductions

19:30–20:00: “The rkt container runtime; explanation and demonstration” by Chris Kühl (@blixtra (https://twitter.com/blixtra)), Co-Founder of Kinvolk GmbH

Linux container technologies are an effective way to isolate processes while saving system resources. This translates directly to lower hosting costs as opposed to running full VMs. rkt is a modular and secure container runtime for Linux systems. In this talk, we'll first give a general overview of the project and then demonstrate how to use it. The overview will include why it exists, what it is, how it works, and what makes it unique. The demonstration will show how to build an Application Container Image (ACI), share the ACI, run ACIs and Docker images and use various utility commands rkt provides.

20:00–20:30: More eating, drinking, and mingling

20:30–21:00: “Docker Swarm on DigitalOcean” by Angel Dimitrov (@angeldimitrov (https://github.com/angeldimitrov)), Co-Founder of sourcestream

Quick overview of Docker Swarm and a setup of a cluster with service discovery, metrics and logs aggregation on DigitalOcean. Docker Swarm is a tool which enables one to schedule and scale Docker containers on many machines. Docker Swarm is well integrated with Docker Machine and Docker Compose. That’s why working with this trio is a breeze.

About the speakers:

Chris Kühl (@blixtra (https://twitter.com/blixtra))
After getting hooked on free and open source software as a hobby through the GNOME project, Chris was able to turn this passion into a career and has since co-founded Kinvolk in Berlin, which focuses exclusively on open source software engineering for foundational Linux technologies such as the Linux kernel, systemd, rkt, etc. Chris is an active member of the Berlin open source community. He helps organize the Berlin meetups for CoreOS and systemd, the Berlin Open Source Eats-n-Drinks Meetup and works with the systemd team to organize systemd.conf.

Angel Dimitrov (@angeldimitrov (https://twitter.com/angeldimitrov))
Angel is the CEO of sourcestream GmbH, a software company with lot of experience in the DevOps arena. Jérôme Petazzoni (one of the authors of Docker) had many great conversations with Angel about his upcoming projects and describes him as “definitely knowledgeable”.

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