Journey to Containers: A Success Story! Experience, Report, and Discussion

This is a great opportunity to create community, relationships, and learn about new technology!

SCHEDULE

5:30pm - Arrival/Registration + Food/Drinks + Networking
6:00pm - Speaker/Presentation
7:15pm - Food/Drinks + Networking
8:00pm - End

FOOD/DRINKS
Food and drinks will be provided! Please contact us if you have any dietary restrictions/food allergies.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INSTRUCTIONS

Meeting will be held in the offices of SmartDraw Software, 1780 Hughes Landing Blvd #1100 on the 11th floor.

Enter through the main doors of the building and take the elevator to the 11th floor; the door to SmartDraw's suite is in the elevator lobby on the 11th floor.

If you arrive at 1780 Hughes Landing after 6pm a member of the SmartDraw team will help you enter the building the travel up to the 11th floor.

Parking:

Park in the garage directly opposite. You'll need to take a ticket to enter but there is no fee to leave - parking is free.

Speaker & Talk

Peter Seale

Peter Seale is Principal Cloud Architect at a small Austin-based company, responsible for all cloud operations of our enterprise SaaS product. We process millions of messages daily and run hundreds of websites in containers—mostly pain-free..

Peter will be discussing the following:

Journey to Containers: A Success Story! Experience Report and Discussion

We did it. We upgraded a large Windows/.NET Framework monolith to run on linux containers in Azure Kubernetes Service, and in the process simplified our infrastructure, improved security, and cut out the majority of our (significant!) compute spend. And that was over two years ago! Let's hop through each step of the process and talk through the what, the why, and what we'd do differently in 2023 (notably: Azure Container Apps). And yes, we blundered, and I’ll talk through some of the blunders. I have almost no shame, so the stories should be good…as long as there’s no permanent recording of this talk.

Most of all, I’m hoping to hear from you on your own journey—so bring questions and share your own experience report! I will happily cede time during the presentation to anyone else who is willing to compare notes!

Giving credit: I will make several references to this excellent article that mirrors our experience, and I highly recommend anyone considering a migration to containers in Azure read it: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fasttrack-for-azure/journey-to-containers/ba-p/3792199