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Doing DropBox the Cloud Native Way

January 23, 2020

Cloud Native architecture has slowly become the default way to build robust, scalable applications. How would you rebuild a large scale storage service such as Dropbox (please note Dropbox is just an …

Cloud Foundry GrootFS: A Daemonless Container Image Manager that You Can Use with RunC for Fun and Profit

January 22, 2020

runC, OCIs implementation of the runtime spec, has been very successful since the initiative was launched back in 2015. Cloud Foundry and others have been running with runC in production for a while …

Choose Your Own Adventure: Finding the Right Path to Containerization

January 21, 2020

Swapping out your underlying infrastructure is one of the most stressful tasks in an organization. Tasked with modernizing your company's infrastructure, how can you get from here to there AND keep up …

Command Execution in Heterogeneous Network at Facebook scale

January 21, 2020

Facebook's global network has tens of thousands of network devices from a variety of vendors. We need to run commands on these devices for monitoring, provisioning …

High performance Microservices on Linux with Apache Thrift

January 21, 2020

The world is rapidly adopting cloud native approaches to software development, reaping the synergies produced by combining microservices, Linux container technology and dynamic application orchestrati …

Lightning Talk: Managing network devices like servers

January 21, 2020

Beginning with the release Nitrogen (2017.7), Salt provides support to manage network gear that allows execution of custom software. Examples of such platforms inc …

CRIU: CRazI StUff for the Mainframe?

January 20, 2020

2012, January 12, 20:42: Linus Torvalds merges Andrew's "patch-bomb" with the first CRIU kernel patches including the comment "… a project by various mad Russians to perform c/r mainly from userspac …

The Anti-Pattern Wall of 2011 has Crumbled: Stateful Applications in Containers

January 20, 2020

The 12 factor app was written in 2011 and became a widely cited classic of useful patterns for application architecture. #6 on the list said: apps shall be stateless. There is some question as to w …

A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare - How Kubernetes and Containers are Re-defining the Linux OS

January 19, 2020

Containers and Kubernetes are having a deep impact on the Linux operating system (OS) that goes well beyond DevOps and cloud-native applications. The concepts of application-centric packaging, process …

Container & Kubernetes Networking 101

January 19, 2020

With the widespread adoption of Docker, containers have taken the DevOps world by storm. Cloud-native is the new programming paradigm. Since developers are not only the creators of these systems, but …

How Linux Containers can Help to Manage Development Environments for IoT and Embedded Systems

January 19, 2020

In this presentation, Yan Vugenfirer will show appropriate techniques for seamless use of containers in development process for embedded and IoT. The implementation of those techniques will be demonst …

How secure are Docker containers?

January 19, 2020

Docker offers many advantages, simplifying both development and production environments. But there is still uncertainty around the security of containers. Ben Hall answers the question, How secure are Docker containers?, exploring Docker's security model, its limitations, and how to handle them.

64-bit ARM Unikernels on uKVM

January 18, 2020

Unikernels are specialised machine images that are generated using Library Operating Systems, which have smaller footprints, no operating systems and accessing baremetal hardware directly. These desir …

FILEgrain: Transport-Agnostic, Fine-Grained Content-Addressable Container Image Layout

January 18, 2020

The current Docker/OCI image format uses TAR archives, which are created for each of Dockerfile RUN changesets, for representing rootfs layers. One of the problems with this format is that a contain …

Indispensable, disposable Jenkins

January 18, 2020

You rely on Jenkins to manage the full stack of your continuous delivery pipeline, but why shouldnt Jenkins itself be software defined, ephemeral, and available at the push of a button? Mandy Hubbard explains how Care.com uses a customized, script-based startup process and Joyents ContainerPilot with a just few edits to a Docker Compose _env file to launch Jenkins in a Docker container.

Make load balancing great again

January 18, 2020

Emile Vauge explains how to effectively manage inbound network traffic in your container-based infrastructure with Traefik, a modern reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.

Monitoring containers: Follow the data

January 18, 2020

Using real-world metrics data from thousands of organizations, Jason Yee explores the latest trends in container adoption and use, shares data on what types of applications organizations are running in containers, and explains how to best monitor these containerized applications.

Get Hands on with Containerized Deployment of OpenStack

January 17, 2020

Hearing a lot about OpenStack and want to check it out for yourself? See how quick and easy it is to install and start using OpenStack using containers that run within a VM on your laptop or within a …

Introduction to System Containers

January 17, 2020

The last couple of years have seen an increased interest in container-related technologies. When people speak of containers they usually mean process containers. They often view a container as being m …

Real-world consistency explained

January 17, 2020

Uwe Friedrichsen explores the challenges, options, and trade-offs of different consistency models in distributed system landscapes, covering the limitations of ACID transactions, eventual consistency, and current research that tries to fill the gaps between ACID and BASE transactions.

Containerd Internals: Building a Core Container Runtime

January 16, 2020

Containerd is the core container runtime used in Docker to execute containers and distribute images. It was designed from the ground up to support the OCI image and runtime specifications. The design …

GPU, USB, NICs and Other Physical Devices in Your Containers

January 16, 2020

The very definition of a container is that it's a set of processes, or in this case full operating system which is sharing the kernel with the host machine. This opens a full array of possibilities a …

Memory Bandwidth as a Service in the Context of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

January 16, 2020

With expanding usage of Iaas (infrastructure as a service), it may be useful to add memory bandwidth(b/w) as a service. Memory b/w monitoring(MBM) and allocation(MBA) allow measuring and control of pe …

Mesos vs Kubernetes: What We Learned Working With Both From Customers

January 15, 2020

IBM has been working in Apache Mesos community for almost two year and also builds a product named as Conductor for Container (https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/cfc-installer/) which is based on Kuberne …

The story of a startup built to disrupt an enterprise from the inside out

January 15, 2020

Chris Jackson explains how 175-year-old company Pearson built a tech startup within the enterprise with the aim of innovating the developer experience. Chris shares the journey from inception to B-round funding and explains how this startup is establishing the foundation of the company's future.

Advanced Continuous Delivery Strategies for Containerized Applications Using DC/OS

January 14, 2020

Using a container orchestration platform like the Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) makes it trivial to setup an automated continuous deployment pipeline that pushes code to production on every comm …

Architecturing and securing IoT platforms with microservices

January 14, 2020

IoT device management and multiprotocol messaging platforms demand specific architectural decisions and high-concurrency approaches due to the massive number of expected devices. Drasko Draskovic and Janko Isidorovic share an architecture, implementation, and testing procedures needed to create an industry-grade IoT platform based on microservices and Docker containers.

BoF: Container Monitoring in 5 Minutes

January 14, 2020

Containers will require you to significantly shift the way you think of monitoring. In this lightning talk, we'll cover: 1. What are the three main ways that containers change the process of instrumen …