This document provides a brief history of containers starting in 1979 with Version 7 and continuing through developments like chroot, FreeBSD jails, Solaris Zones, and LXC through the 2000s. It notes the emergence of Docker in 2010 and 2011 and discusses the need for a "shipyard" to continuously deliver updates. The document outlines the minimum viable platform needed to support containers including routing, services, orchestration, health monitoring, and reusable runtime environments. It promotes the Cloud Foundry platform and provides further reading resources.

1. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
…sometimes you don’t.
Sometimes you feel like a docker…

2. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest

3. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest

4. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
1979 (Version 7)
1982 (BSD)
20042000
chroot FreeBSD jails Solaris Zones LXC
2008
A Brief History of Containers

5. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
2010 2011

6. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest

7. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
“To always be
shipping,
you need a
shipyard”
Bret Mogilefsky of 18F,
on cloud.gov

8. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
Image credit: Simon Wardley

9. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest

10. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest

11. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
Pivotal Web Services

12. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
Minimum Viable Platform
1. Routing and load balancing
2. Backing services broker
3. Infrastructure orchestration
4. Health management, monitoring, and recovery
5. Reusable runtime environment repository
6. Log aggregation

13. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
+or
Demo Time!

14. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
Further Reading
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
http://bosh.io
http://pivotal.io/platform
http://run.pivotal.io
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/10/09/cloud-gov-launch/
https://github.com/cwest/cfenv

15. @bridgetkromhout @caseywest
Thank you!