An introduction/exploration of containers, the problems they seek to solve, and how they change things for different roles/perspectives/people

1. Intro to Containers 101
What, Why, and How

2. What’s the problem we’re solving?

3. Our industry is built on change
Change is expected, expectations are changing

4. Expectations of Agility

5. Expectations of Speed

6. Expectations of Efficiency

7. Adaptation

8. Hosting environments adapted

9. We’ve adapted our approach

10. Package management

11. Smaller scope

12. Best of Breed

13. “E pluribus unum” apps

14. Lego driven development

15. N x N Deployment Grid

16. Production
releases

17. “We’ve had a few error reports…”

18. Do we just accept this?
Image copyright http://kcgreendotcom.com

19. Story Song time

26. Also released in 1956

27. Image Credit: Tommy Ku

34. Why are we talking about
bananas?
Isn’t this about software?

35. Restate the Problem

36. Goals
Develop, ship, and run
composite applications
Fast, consistent delivery
Responsive deployment/scaling

38. Pack once – Ship anywhere

39. So what are these
“containers”?

40. Jessie
.NET Core
ASP.NET Core
My App
Standardized unit

41. Quick Definition: Image
Ordered collection of root
filesystem changes and execution
parameters. Immutable. Inert.
Credit: Docker Open Source

42. Quick Definition: Container
Runtime instance of an
image. Consists of image,
environment, and
instructions
Credit: Docker Open Source

43. Something old is new again

44. How does this solve our problem?

45. Perspectives

46. Perspective: Developers

47. Perspective: Operations

48. Perspective: CTO

49. Smooth sailing?

50. Challenges

51. Requirements for a healthy system

52. Roadmap

53. Other topics we’re talking about
Already delivered:
• Code Smells and Other Malodorous Software Odors – Clint Edmonson
• Building a Stronger Team, One Strength at a Time – Angela Dugan
Coming up:
• Agile Metrics that Matter – Clint Edmonson
– Today @4pm – Junior Ballroom D
• Learning Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi Cluster – Mike Green
– Wed @9:15 – Grand Ballroom D

54. Thank you!
@jcgillespie
Josh.Gillespie@PolarisSolutions.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshgillespie
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55. Image Credits
• http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/unloading-bananas-pier-1-pratt-
street
• http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/473
• https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=8123170%40N06&view_all=
1&text=dole
• https://pixabay.com/en/bananas-fruit-yellow-1076769/
• https://pixabay.com/en/bananas-indian-fruit-fresh-1456811/
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/dvids/3716920088/