CoreOS tools from Giant Swarm & rkt, beyond 1.0

The next CoreOS Berlin Meetup is on its way!

We're happy to welcome our friend Timo (https://twitter.com/teemow) from Giant Swarm (https://giantswarm.io/) to talk about their newly open-sourced tools for CoreOS. We'll also have Iago (https://twitter.com/iaguis) from Kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io/) up to talk about the rkt 1.0 release and the plans moving forward.

We'll be giving away 1 ticket to CoreOS Fest (https://coreos.com/fest/), May 9-10 in Berlin. To be eligible, you'll need to be there before the first talk and at the end of the last talk when the name will be drawn.

Doors open at 6:30pm, talks start at 7pm.

7pm: Automated Provisioning of CoreOS Clusters on Bare Metal

CoreOS clusters are at the core of many modern container and microservice infrastructures. As these infrastructures are built for automation and scalability the provisioning and management of these infrastructures should be automated, too. However, managing and provisioning bare metal is not easy and with the move towards “disposable” infrastructure (or treating your servers as cattle instead of pets), provisioning machines from scratch is not just a one-off task.

To make this task easier we developed a set of (open source) provisioning tools that automate bootstrapping fully configured of CoreOS clusters on bare metal (and AWS). Furthermore, our tooling allows for deployment of customized versions of binaries independent from the ones deployed with the underlying CoreOS version.

This talk goes into details on how said provisioning tools work to set up customized CoreOS clusters on bare metal.

7:45pm: rkt, beyond 1.0

rkt is the next-generation container manager for Linux clusters. Designed for security, simplicity, and composability within modern cluster architectures, rkt discovers, verifies, fetches, and executes application containers with pluggable isolation.

A couple of months ago we graduated rkt to production-ready with the release of version 1.0. Of course, that doesn’t mean the work is over. Come and learn what’s new in the rkt world and what are the plans for the future.

About the speakers:

Timo Derstappen (teemow (https://twitter.com/teemow)) is co-founder and CTO of Giant Swarm (https://giantswarm.io/) in Cologne. He has many years of experience in building scalable and automated cloud architectures. He likes his minimal Linux desktop setup, puts nearly everything into containers, and thinks Minecraft is a gateway drug.

Iago López (iaguis (https://twitter.com/iaguis)) is co-founder and software engineer at Berlin-based Kinvolk (https://kinvolk.io). He's a rkt maintainer and has spent a lot of time understanding the interplay between systemd, cgroups and namespaces so that you don't have to. Of all things, he hates cucumbers!

Thanks to Ahoy! Berlin (http://www.ahoyberlin.com/) for hosting the event.