container

Running containerized applications securely in production

December 26, 2019

Research shows that 46% of deployed containers run for one hour and 27% run for about five minutes. In such a fast-paced, disposable computing environment, cloud operators struggle to keep their workloads and container environments under control. Giuseppe de Candia explains how to take the chaos out of these short-lived computing engines and the security implications to consider along the way.

Common vulnerabilities and exposures in containers: What to know

December 25, 2019

Clair is an open source container image security analyzer that enables developers to build services that scan containers for security threats and vulnerabilities. Quentin Machu offers an overview of Clair and explores a real-life example to demonstrate how Clair is able to automatically detect known vulnerabilities in Docker and rkt containers before they get exploited.

Continuous integration, delivery, and deployment with Docker and DC/OS

December 23, 2019

Michael Hausenblas demonstrates how to build and roll out containerized applications in an automated fashion and outlines best practices around Docker image builds, taking footprint and security aspects into consideration.

Kubernetes and Prometheus: The beginning of a beautiful friendship

December 22, 2019

Kubernetes and Prometheus are still pretty young, but somehow they immediately fell in love when they first met early last year. And now Prometheus has moved into the shiny new CNCF building that Kubernetes has called home for a while. Bjrn Rabenstein explores how the first two projects hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation work together.

Need for speed: Accelerate automation tests from three hours to three minutes

December 22, 2019

The elephant in the room that every developer ignores is that all automated tests (except unit) are too slow for todays fast-paced, first-to-market environment. With slow automated tests, youre just shipping problems faster to production. Emanuil Slavov explains how the team at Komfo made automated tests run 60x faster using containers, hermetic servers, and improved architecture.

Data flow architecture with Redux and Angular 2

December 18, 2019

This workshop is all about modern SPA architecture, focused on popular architectural design pattern Redux. Redux introduces a unidirectional data-flow and a predictable state container that scales. Through a series of live code examples, Nir Kaufman walks you through a complete flow of a typical application, using Angular2 as the presentation layer.

Lessons learned running Hadoop and Spark in Docker

December 11, 2019

Many initiatives for running applications inside containers have been scoped to run on a single host. Using Docker containers for large-scale environments poses new challenges, especially for big data applications like Hadoop. Thomas Phelan shares lessons learned and some tips and tricks on how to Dockerize your big data applications in a reliable, scalable, and high-performance environment.

Ansible for SRE teams

December 3, 2019

Ansible is a "batteries included" automation, configuration management, and orchestration tool that's fast to learn and flexible enough for any architecture. Join James Meickle to get started with Ansible, with an eye toward sustainable development in cloud environments.

Bulk image processing using Kubernetes

December 3, 2019

Mike Newswanger explains how he used Kubernetes and Google Cloud to burst and extend the capacity of a physical infrastructure for optimizing almost 10 million images in less than two weeks.

Knative: Kubernetes, serverless, and you

December 1, 2019

It's a Kubernetes world. Join Ryan Gregg to learn about Knative, an open source collaboration between Google and other industry leaders to define the future of serverless on Kubernetes. Knative solves the difficult but boring aspects of running modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.

Kubernetes bootcamp: Deploying and scaling microservices

December 1, 2019

Kubernetes has a reputation for being complex to set up and operate, but that doesn't have to be the case. Join Jrme Petazzoni to explore Kubernetes concepts and architecture and learn how to use it to deploy and scale your applications. The content is suitable to all kinds of deployment models, from the cloud (AKS, EKS, GKE, kops, etc.) to on-premises.

Switching horses midstream: The challenges of migrating 150+ microservices to Kubernetes

November 29, 2019

The Financial Times recently migrated its content platform to Kubernetes. Join Sarah Wells to find out what it takes to migrate 150+ microservices from one container stack to another without affecting the existing production users and while the rest of your teams are working on delivering new functionality.

A young lady's illustrated primer to technical decision making

November 28, 2019

Charity Majors discusses making better choices with software. Whether you're selecting a new polyglot persistence layer, launching a startup from scratch, or modernizing a mature environment, there have never been more opportunities for chaos. Charity explains when you should use boring technology, when to take a flyer on the bleeding edge, and best practices for making solid technical decisions.

Troubleshooting Kubernetes applications

November 28, 2019

Michael Hausenblas walks you through troubleshooting applications running in Kubernetes, from application-level debugging to distributed tracing to chaos engineering.

Building and operating containerized applications at scale (Day 1)

November 27, 2019

The advantages of containerized applications are increasingly recognized. Michael Hausenblas provides a gentle introduction to building and operating containerized applications at scale. The first day focuses on the basics of building app using containers; the second day expands this knowledge, focusing on the operations (monitoring, upgrades, etc.) of these apps.

Container orchestration wars

November 27, 2019

The orchestration space is fast moving and full of competing products, platforms, and frameworks. How do you choose the right one for your requirements? Karl Isenberg explores the features of several container orchestrators, breaking down the feature sets and characteristics into categories and scoring multiple solutionsincluding Kubernetes, Marathon, and Docker Swarmagainst each other.

Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths

November 27, 2019

Bridget Kromhout explains why containers will not fix your broken culture. Microservices wont prevent your two-pizza teams from needing to have conversations with one another over that pizza. No amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conways law.

Is your performance analysis approach as cutting edge as your application architecture?

November 26, 2019

To analyze and improve the performance of modern applications, you must abandon outdated approaches and toolsets which are rooted to the physical topology of servers and JVMs. Jon Hodgson discusses a new paradigm to reveal unexpected relationships and hotspots obscured by the elasticity of containers and microservices so that you can find and fix issues with the most overarching business impact.

Monitoring microservices: Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes visibility at scale

November 25, 2019

Gianluca Borello explores the state of the art for visibility, monitoring, and troubleshooting for microservices and containersincluding live demonstrations of popular tools and methods and the pros and cons of eachwith special emphasis on sysdig, an open source system visibility tool.

Running microservice environments is no free lunch

November 23, 2019

Migrating toward microservices tends to result in a 20x larger environment than monolithic counterparts. While the bright side of microservices and their enabling container platforms is high availability and scalability, what about the dark sidethe side that nobody talks about in their presentations. Alois Mayr and Alexander Ramos uncover the truth so you dont have to learn it the hard way.

Stateful applications on autopilot

November 22, 2019

Microservice architectures manage the complexity of the development process, and application containers help manage the dependencies and deployment of those microservices. But deploying and connecting services together is a challenge because it forces developers to design for operationalization. Timothy Gross explores autopiloting applications as a powerful design pattern to solve this problem.

Stream analytics in the enterprise: A look at Intels internal IoT implementation

November 17, 2019

Moty Fania shares Intels IT experience implementing an on-premises IoT platform for internal use cases. The platform was based on open source big data technologies and containers and was designed as a multitenant platform with built-in analytical capabilities. Moty highlights the key lessons learned from this journey and offers a thorough review of the platforms architecture.

Advanced Docker developer workflows on Mac OS and Windows

November 15, 2019

Most developers use a Mac or Windows host to develop Docker Linux containers, which complicates filesystem sharing between the host and the Linux container and requires replicating Linux networking configuration locally. Anil Madhavapeddy and Richard Mortier outline ways to make using Docker on a Mac or Windows transparent, thus enabling a rapid test/edit/deployment cycle for microservices.

Auto-updating and automated container application delivery

November 15, 2019

Using Chef or Puppet to manage your containers? Manually pushing on green to your orchestration system? David Dennis outlines an easier, better way that notifies you of available stack updates, automatically creates new Dockerfiles, and integrates Slack, Bitnami Stacksmith, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.

Blocks in containers: Lessons learned from containerizing Minecraft

November 15, 2019

Its clear containers are here to stay for building reliable, scalable applications. But what about applications developed prior to the advent of containerization? Using Minecraft as her example, Julia Ferraioli explains why retrofitting technology for containers poses conceptual and practical challenges that require an approach different than starting container native.

Containerizing legacy applications

November 14, 2019

Docker containers are targeted at microservices: lean, modularized, single-process applications that are easy to quickly deploy. However, older, bloated multiprocess (aka legacy) applications can also take advantage of containers. Jose De La Rosa shares his experiences with containerizing legacy applications at Dell.

Containers at scale thanks to Kubernetes

November 13, 2019

Security, easy scaling, and high availability are essential needs for real-world application infrastructure. Brandon Philips offers a how-to talk and tutorial demonstrating how to set up a production-ready cluster with full TLS, manage the cluster through scaling and upgrade, and build the cluster for high availability. Brandon also addresses upgrading Kubernetes while keeping availability.

Deployment and orchestration at scale with Docker Swarm

November 13, 2019

Jrme Petazzoni and AJ Bowen demonstrate building an app from development to production with Docker. Jrme and AJ run a sample app on a single node with Compose and add scaling and load balancing. They then provision a Swarm cluster with Docker Machine and implement multihost communication with overlay networking. The result will be a highly available, scalable deployment for the application.