Containers Throughout your Environment

Phillip Baker

The basics of application containers and how to use them throughout your stack

Structure of this talk

• A Little Background
• Some Ideas
• Q & A

What's an (application) container?

A portable, self-sufficient unit that can be manipulated using standard operations and run consistently across platforms.

Portable

Self-sufficient

Manipulated using standard operations

Run consistently across platforms

Why do I hear about Docker so much?

What is Docker not?

So mesos, kubernetes, core os, etc.?

Development

• replicated, updated environments
• complex, multi-component systems
• try entire stacks quickly

Testing

• hygenic & isolated

Staging & Production

• idempotent deploys

THE END

Questions? Snarky comments? Answers?

careers.digitalocean.com <- you know you want to

• Fork this presentation: github.com/phillbaker/containers-throughout-your-environment

Reading List

• About Docker From Docker
• What is a Standard Container?

• thanks to the Internet for all the photos.