A look at containerization benefits and ways to manage K8s clusters

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Agenda:

6:00 - Doors open. Networking. Food and drinks

6:30 - Welcome.

6:50 - Persistent storage with containers by Kaslin Fields, Solutions Architect at Oracle

7.20 - Q&A break.

7:30 - The growing need for Kubernetes configuration management by Lee Briggs, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Apptio

8:00 - Q&A break and wrap-up.

DETAILS

Detailed agenda:

Talk #1

Speaker: Kaslin Fields, Solutions Architect at Oracle

Title: Persistent storage with containers

Abstract: The adoption of containers has brought with it a lot of promises: fast creation times, efficient hardware usage, portability across various OS’s, and more. The potential of containerization to make the management of applications easier and better, is what has made containers one of the hottest topics in tech over the last few years. With sky-high and climbing adoption rates, it seems like everyone is trying to containerize. Talks on how to make the best containers abound, but what about trying to containerize more traditional (monolithic) applications that have significant data requirements? Where does persistent data fit in to the hot new container landscape? In this talk, we’ll discuss what containers mean for data. We’ll explore what options you have for dealing with various data requirements alongside containerized infrastructure. And you’ll learn how the promises of containerization can benefit your infrastructure from a broader perspective.

Bio: Kaslin Fields is a Solutions Architect focusing on containers (particularly Kubernetes) at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As a Solutions Architect, she spends most of her time creating blog posts, demos, and other materials to help guide Oracle’s customers into the world of containerization. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s recently released Kubernetes service, Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), is a great way for Oracle customers to get started using Kubernetes in the cloud. Before joining Oracle, she was a Hybrid Cloud Architect at NetApp where she developed a Dockerized hybrid-cloud performance testing infrastructure.

Talk # 2

Speaker: Lee Briggs, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Apptio

Title: The growing need for Kubernetes configuration management

Abstract: Maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters is a new skill many are having to learn. With standard OS based deployment models, configuration management tools are available to ease the manipulation of multiple systems. As the number of Kubernetes clusters in your infrastructure grows, what are the options for managing the application deployments within them? This talk will cover a variety of options available, and expose a missing toolset in the Kubernetes administrators arsenal which hasn’t yet been addressed

Bio: Lee Briggs is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Apptio. With almost 10 years of experience designing, building and maintaining distributed and complex systems, he wears the scars of many deployment tools. When he’s not trying to fit monolithic applications into containers, he playing and watching Soccer and walks with his family and dog, Toby

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