Demystifying Docker - Presented by Aaron Murrell and Mike Felder

Curious about how to leverage Docker containers in your day-to-day development? Maybe you know the mechanics but want to explore how containers help us start new development faster and deploy code better. Once we have many containers interacting with each other, how do we orchestrate this new complexity with Swarm or Kubernetes, and what options does Azure offer? Get the answers to these questions and more!

Join us as Aaron Murrell and Mike Felder present Demystifying Docker!

Aaron is a Principal Consultant with Credera and leads the Microsoft Solutions Practice in Houston. He graduated from Baylor University in 1999 with Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He has since worked as a developer, architect, entrepreneur, and consultant in a wide variety of industries including upstream oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, food service and gaming. Aaron is a technologist, husband, father of 2, experienced Agile practitioner, beginning cyclist, occasional runner, classical guitar student, rusty french horn player, and practicing enterprise and software architect.

Mike is a Senior Consultant at Credera in the Microsoft Solutions Practice out of Credera's Houston office. He has experience providing solutions in the Retail Energy, Oil & Gas, Medical and Financial industries. He has technical experience with Microsoft's .NET and .NET Core framework, DevOps, C#, Angular, SQL Server and, Windows as well as Linux server management.

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