ContainerizeThis 2016

This talk is an introduction to container runtimes (engines) and an understanding of when container orchestrators enter and what role they play. We'll look at what makes them alike, yet unique. 

Rancher is an open-source platform for running containers on any infrastructure. It provides teams with authentication, networking, load-balancing, and service discovery capabilities, while leveraging Kubernetes, Mesos, and Docker Swarm for orchestration and scheduling.

In this talk, we'll briefly discuss some of the considerations your organization needs to consider when adopting containers, before introducing and demonstrating the Rancher platform.

This session combines a presentation and a workshop on Habitat, an open source project from Chef Software, Inc.

During this Habitat presentation/workshop, we will do a deep dive into the components that make up Habitat and learn all about what it takes to create a Habitat Artifact that lives inside a Docker container. You will then be exposed to a few demos showing off some of Habitat's awesome features.

Afterward, you will build your own Habitat Artifact and post-process it to live inside a Docker container!

 

Join us as we go from Zero to Habitat in a Containerized World!


** NOTE : It's strongly recommended that you come with a working Docker environment and WiFi. If you are on Windows, please come with a Linux workstation inside a VM which has a Docker environment installed. After the presentation and demo part of this session, there will be a short break.

Cluster federation allows users to efficiently scale up their application deployment and management to a global scale. Global scheduling allows replication and failover to span across physical datacenters and cloud providers, yielding lower latencies and higher availability for end users.

Kubernetes 1.3 introduced support for cluster federation, which is a natural extension to the work happening in Kubernetes and is one of those features that everyone dreams of having but few organizations achieve. Painting the picture of unified global deployments and showing these features working will help to attract more developers and operators to the Kubernetes platform. Federation brings a level of automation to cluster management that greatly reduces the operational overhead

This talk will show how to distribute workloads easily across clusters, regardless of vendor or physical location. It will also describe potential use cases and walk through future work.

In his work a Customer Success Onboarding Engineer at Iron.io, JohnPaul Keenan has seen countless people make the same mistakes over and over again when they first decide to move into a microservice-based architecture. Some of the things you do early on to save a few minutes can end up costing you hours (days...weeks?) down the road when you try desperately to debug. By making a few simple changes early on to both the theory and practice of your newly containerizing application, you'll find scalability and debugging  a much faster process.

This talk will address how to avoid common mistakes and tips for getting it right the first time.

Docker containers are all the rage with developers, and it's clear why...with Docker it is easy to create consistent environments to build and test apps. But what happens post-development?

To optimally support DevOps pipelines, the Docker image must be the new artifact; from development through build, test, and deployment. 

In this presentation, Chris Ciborowski will cover how teams can use Docker in an end-to-end pipeline, using images as an artifact and obtaining "git push; deployed."

The presentation can be found here:

http://nebulaworks.slides.com/chrisciborowski/containerizethis-2016-docker-containers-devops-adoption/fullscreen?token=44onzZQq 

Have a downloadable infrastructure software product, but an audience which is accustomed to instantly-available hosted services?  Why not make an online trial to lower the barrier to adoption?

This is the question we explored for our database product, Neo4j.  Plenty of questions came up - how do we authenticate users, isolate them, and scale the service while providing a genuine product experience? What types of data can we provide for users that is both meaningful and interesting?

Docker and AWS came to the rescue -- enabling us to launch isolated containers for each individual user in a time-limited trial. 

This session will discuss the architecture of that implementation (queuing services, python, elastic container service, data ingestion) + lessons learned during the implementation (and first week in production!).  We'll review the strengths and weaknesses of our approach along with later explorations of using Docker Cloud for a similar purpose.

At times it seems that the whole world has jumped on the container bandwagon, with little consideration given to what running microservices and containers in production actually requires. In selecting the best possible container orchestration and management platform, you must take into consideration everything from developer enablement to CI/CD pipeline automation to scaling of your infrastructure, among others.

 

In this keynote, we will examine this issue and explain how Kontena addresses them and makes running containers and microservices simple and easy, even after the initial excitement and novelty wears off.

Open time slot.