The document is about Konstantinos Faliagkas, a first-year PhD student at the University of Manchester researching efficient scientific workflows in container-based environments. It highlights the concept of elasticity in cloud computing and its relation to Docker containers, particularly focusing on autoscaling in a swarm cluster. Contact information and a GitHub repository link related to a demo are also provided.

1. Autoscaling Docker Containers
Konstantinos
Faliagkas
PhD Student

2. • Docker newbie
• 1st year PhD student at the University
of Manchester
• Research on running efficiently
scientific workflows on container
based environments
About Me

3. Elasticity in cloud computing represents
mainly how fast and efficiently the
computing resources are varied in response
to users’ demands
• Scale out
• Scale up
The Elasticity Challenge
Containers allow for rapid
elasticity!

4. Docker Birthday #3

5. Application Architecture

6. Making it Elastic

7. Autoscaling on a Swarm Cluster

8. Demo

9. Github repo:
• https://github.com/ksketo/docker-birthday-3
Email:
• kfaliagkas90@gmail.com
Twitter:
• @kwst_f
Github and Contact Info

10. Thank you!