Is your open source project ready for the container era?

Learn how to package up your open source software project as a containerized offering that developers trust and your community can easily maintain. Diane Mueller, Vincent Batts, and Ryan Jarvinen outline ways to automate your image build and deployment processes using Docker Hub, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and other popular toolchains and explore emerging best practices and container stds.

The industry is embracing containers as a more agile and streamlined model for application delivery. Using Docker images as a packaging format has invigorated a new line of thought. Containers enable a simple and efficient way to assemble, distribute, and deploy software. These advantages make containers ubiquitous and easy to install with a one-line command. Building Docker images is easy; that’s why there are over 45,000 public images on Docker Hub today (albeit only 100 of them “official” images). However, packaging up your open source project as a containerized offering that enterprises and developers alike will trust and that your community can maintain and patch is not as simple. Creating reproducible, secure images from source that are easily maintained and updated takes a bit more planning and automation. The importance of common standards in container format tooling interop is crucial to planning today and avoiding future “technical debt.” Diane Mueller, Vincent Batts, and Ryan Jarvinen demonstrate what it takes to create a successful (and secure) build strategy so that your OSS projects can be easily consumed and maintained as containers. Diane, Vincent, and Ryan outline ways to automate your image build and deployment processes using Docker Hub, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and other popular toolchains and explore emerging best practices and container stds. They also discuss how the ongoing OCI initiatives are helping to standardize these processes and solutions. You’ll learn how to use source2image, environment variables, secrets, service accounts, and templates to design, develop, and maintain the next generation of container-based open source solutions. This session is sponsored by Red Hat.