These are the slides of my presentation at the Docker Meetup Switzerland in Zurich. The presentation is an introduction into the Moby Project, which was announced at DockerCon 2017.

1. Introduction to the
Moby Project
Jochen Zehnder
Head of Engineering & Support at netIT-Services

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Who am I?
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● Jochen Zehnder
○ elft3r (Twitter, GitHub, Docker Hub, ...)
● Infrastructure Full Stack Developer
○ @netIT-Services GmbH
○ Automation of Datacenter Processes (a.k.a. Private Cloud)
■ Previously SAP Systems
■ Currently Oracle DBs
● Docker enthusiast
○ Since version 0.6
● Co-Organizer Docker Switzerland Meetup

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Container Ecosystem
History
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Container Ecosystem (2013 - 2014)
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● Pioneers
○ 10s projects
○ 100s contributors
○ 1000s deployments
○ 0 - 100M Hub pulls
DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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Container Ecosystem (2015 - 2016)
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● Early Adopters
○ 100s projects
○ 1,000s contributors
○ 10,000s deployments
○ 100M - 6B Hub pulls
DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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Docker Products
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Container Ecosystem (2017 - 2018)
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● Mainstream
○ 1,000s of projects
○ 10,000s of contributors
○ Millions of deployments
○ Highly specialized
participants
DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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What is Moby?
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Fedora, RHEL and CentOS
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Fedora
RHEL
CentOS
The Difference Between Fedora, Redhat, and CentOS
● Run By RedHat (company)
● Community driven
● Focused on quick releases (~6 Month)
● Stresses features and functionality
● Free
● Based on Fedora
● Run by RedHat (company)
● Focused on long releases for stability
● Stresses stability over features
● Commercial (non-free)
● Based on commercial releases of RedHat (distro)
● Run by the community
● Basically RedHat without the cost or support

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Goal of Moby
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● “An open framework to assemble specialized container
systems without reinventing the wheel.”
● Provides
○ Library of containerized components
○ Tools to assemble components into products
○ Set of reference assemblies

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Moby
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Nothing
changes
New
Framework
DockerCon 2017 - General Session Day 1 - Solomon Hykes

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Moby
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Tweet by @kikitux

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What is Moby?
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● Move to clearly separate Project from Product
○ NO replacement for Docker the product
○ Help to separate highly opinionated decisions (e.g. UI design)
● Move to breakup the monolith
○ Going back to the UNIX philosophy
● The project just started
○ A lot of discussions and work needs to be done
■ e.g. centralize the tooling that is already there
● Moby tool should be for general assemblies
○ RancherOS
○ Currently assembles bootable OS images (linuxkit/linuxkit)

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Docker CE
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● Docker Engine (docker/docker -> moby/moby)
○ runC
○ containerd
○ Libnetwork
○ ...
● Docker CLI (docker/cli)

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Docker CE
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● Docker CE Packaging (docker/docker-ce-packaging)
○ Tools to build the single products
● ‘moby-components’ script (shykes/moby-extras)
○ Tool to manage multiple upstream
repositories in one big repository
○ uses components.conf

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Conclusion
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● Moby project just started
○ Call for help of the community
● Separate project from product
● No changes for the end user
● Moby a tool to help build products (container systems)
○ First assembly: create bootable OS Images

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Q & A
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