OpenStack Day Seattle 2015, Enterprise Track
Title: Windows Containers, Hyper-V and OpenStack
Speakers: Ben Armstrong, Microsoft & Alessandro Pilotti, Cloubase Solutions
Slides that I presented at the 2011 OpenStack design summit in Boston, discussing the Openstack work done within the Novell/Microsoft Joint Interoperability Lab.
Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 includes OpenStack Havana, hardened packages, the Savana, Murano, and Ceilometer projects, and most of all, the ease of deploying with Fuel.
Slides that I presented at the 2011 OpenStack design summit in Boston, discussing the Openstack work done within the Novell/Microsoft Joint Interoperability Lab.
Mirantis OpenStack 4.0 includes OpenStack Havana, hardened packages, the Savana, Murano, and Ceilometer projects, and most of all, the ease of deploying with Fuel.
Self-service and automation using OpenStack for VMware vSpherePlatform9
Many VMware customers are looking to deliver private clouds with self-service provisioning for users within their organization. In addition, deploying newer applications requires programmatic access to infrastructure to enable cloud-native design patterns such as dynamically scaling applications based on workload.
In this talk, Kenneth Hui and Sirish Raghuram will discuss how OpenStack can be used as a cloud management platform that seamlessly integrates with VMware vSphere. Join them to discuss:
* Use cases: Self-service and infrastructure automation
* How Platform9 Managed OpenStack, currently in beta, enables 100% interoperability of OpenStack with VMware vSphere
* Design considerations to scale OpenStack with vSphere
* Simplifying storage and network requirements for deploying OpenStack
* Deploying cloud-native application templates that dynamically scale with workload
AWS Summit 2015 Tokyo Breakout: Global Large Scale Cloud Design and Cloud Nat...fast_retailing
This is a presentation shared from Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. in one of Breakout sessions in AWS Summit Tokyo 2015, talking about how we use AWS, what's the best way to design system on Cloud comparing the best practices on-premises. In addition to the topic about global network design to distribute all of our system to our global customers as well as employees/store staffs.
Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 brings together the convenience of Fuel with the latest release of OpenStack, Icehouse. This presentation shows what's new, and what you can expect.
A session in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Berlin. Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the hottest categories in information technology today, yet there are significant challenges when trying to create an end-to-end solution. The worlds of "IT" and “IoT" differ in terms of programming interfaces, protocols, security frameworks, and application lifecycle management. In this talk we will describe proven ways to overcome challenges when deploying a complete “device to datacenter” system, including how to stream IoT telemetry into big data repositories; how to perform real-time analytics on machine data; and how to close the loop with reliable, secure command and control back out to remote control systems and other devices.
Self-service and automation using OpenStack for VMware vSpherePlatform9
Many VMware customers are looking to deliver private clouds with self-service provisioning for users within their organization. In addition, deploying newer applications requires programmatic access to infrastructure to enable cloud-native design patterns such as dynamically scaling applications based on workload.
In this talk, Kenneth Hui and Sirish Raghuram will discuss how OpenStack can be used as a cloud management platform that seamlessly integrates with VMware vSphere. Join them to discuss:
* Use cases: Self-service and infrastructure automation
* How Platform9 Managed OpenStack, currently in beta, enables 100% interoperability of OpenStack with VMware vSphere
* Design considerations to scale OpenStack with vSphere
* Simplifying storage and network requirements for deploying OpenStack
* Deploying cloud-native application templates that dynamically scale with workload
AWS Summit 2015 Tokyo Breakout: Global Large Scale Cloud Design and Cloud Nat...fast_retailing
This is a presentation shared from Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. in one of Breakout sessions in AWS Summit Tokyo 2015, talking about how we use AWS, what's the best way to design system on Cloud comparing the best practices on-premises. In addition to the topic about global network design to distribute all of our system to our global customers as well as employees/store staffs.
Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 brings together the convenience of Fuel with the latest release of OpenStack, Icehouse. This presentation shows what's new, and what you can expect.
A session in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Berlin. Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the hottest categories in information technology today, yet there are significant challenges when trying to create an end-to-end solution. The worlds of "IT" and “IoT" differ in terms of programming interfaces, protocols, security frameworks, and application lifecycle management. In this talk we will describe proven ways to overcome challenges when deploying a complete “device to datacenter” system, including how to stream IoT telemetry into big data repositories; how to perform real-time analytics on machine data; and how to close the loop with reliable, secure command and control back out to remote control systems and other devices.
Understand benefits and pain points of cloud, local and vagrant based development
Describe a development flow that combines vagrant and AWS to create a:
consistent environments for all developers
consistent environment from development to production
help organizations move fast – if they are not already doing this
integrate nearly flawlessly with AWS
Ease Development <-> Production Software Deployment
OpenStack, Containers, and Docker: The Future of Application Deployment
Twenty years ago, developers built static applications on well-defined stacks that ran on proprietary, monolithic hardware. Developers today want freedom to build applications using their choice of services and stacks and, ideally, want to be able to run those applications on any available hardware. Of course, this raises questions about service interaction, the practicality of migrating applications across environments, and the challenges of managing unlimited combinations of services and hardware environment.
By promoting an opensource approach to flexible and inter-operable infrastructure, OpenStack goes a long way towards achieving this vision of the future. This talk discusses the application and platform side of the equation, and the interplay between OpenStack, Container technology (e.g. LXC), and the opensource Docker.io project. Docker.io enables any application and its dependencies to be deployed as lightweight containers that run consistently virtually anywhere. The same containerized application that runs on a developer's laptop can run consistently on a bare metal server, an OpenStack cluster, a Rackspace cloud, a VM,etc. While providing isolation and compatibility, containers have significant size, performance, and deployment advantages over traditional VMs.
Recently, the community created an integration between Docker and OpenStack Nova, opening up exciting possibilities for web scale application deployment, continuous integration and deployment, private PaaS, and hybrid cloud. This session will give an introduction to Docker and containers in the context of OpenStack, and will then demonstrate cross-environment deployment of applications.
The Information Technology have led us into an era where the production, sharing and use of information are now part of everyday life and of which we are often unaware actors almost: it is now almost inevitable not leave a digital trail of many of the actions we do every day; for example, by digital content such as photos, videos, blog posts and everything that revolves around the social networks (Facebook and Twitter in particular). Added to this is that with the "internet of things", we see an increase in devices such as watches, bracelets, thermostats and many other items that are able to connect to the network and therefore generate large data streams. This explosion of data justifies the birth, in the world of the term Big Data: it indicates the data produced in large quantities, with remarkable speed and in different formats, which requires processing technologies and resources that go far beyond the conventional systems management and storage of data. It is immediately clear that, 1) models of data storage based on the relational model, and 2) processing systems based on stored procedures and computations on grids are not applicable in these contexts. As regards the point 1, the RDBMS, widely used for a great variety of applications, have some problems when the amount of data grows beyond certain limits. The scalability and cost of implementation are only a part of the disadvantages: very often, in fact, when there is opposite to the management of big data, also the variability, or the lack of a fixed structure, represents a significant problem. This has given a boost to the development of the NoSQL database. The website NoSQL Databases defines NoSQL databases such as "Next Generation Databases mostly addressing some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open source and horizontally scalable." These databases are: distributed, open source, scalable horizontally, without a predetermined pattern (key-value, column-oriented, document-based and graph-based), easily replicable, devoid of the ACID and can handle large amounts of data. These databases are integrated or integrated with processing tools based on the MapReduce paradigm proposed by Google in 2009. MapReduce with the open source Hadoop framework represent the new model for distributed processing of large amounts of data that goes to supplant techniques based on stored procedures and computational grids (step 2). The relational model taught courses in basic database design, has many limitations compared to the demands posed by new applications based on Big Data and NoSQL databases that use to store data and MapReduce to process large amounts of data.
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Docker is the world's leading software containerization platform.
This is a comprehensive introduction to Docker, suitable for delivering in introductory meetups to an audience who does not know about docker.
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CloudOpen 2014 - Mixing Your Open Source Cloud CocktailMark Hinkle
Add two parts virtualization, one part orchestration add a little networking shake and pour. Unfortunately cloud computing isn’t that easy but then again not all clouds are the same and tastes may vary. This talk will discuss how the varying open source technologies like OpenStack, Docker, LXC and others can be mixed together to make something that appeals to the needs of a wide variety of users. There’s also no problem in abstaining from building your own cloud but still benefiting from the open source tooling to maximize the benefits of the public cloud.
Get introduced to the new ASP.NET 5. This stack stack that will change the way you build modern web apps! The next generation ASP.NET gives us a much needed modern framework for web and cloud. It is built from the ground up to provide an optimized development framework for apps that are either deployed to the cloud or run on-premises. A significant redesign, full open source and available on GitHub, ASP.NET 5 uses cloud-optimized version, that is enhanced for server scenarios like low-memory and high-throughput. Get to know the all new powerful ASP.NET 5 through our webinar.
We would encourage you to go through the live Demo. Write back to us at jghosh@suyati.com for any queries.
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OpenStack is a great platform for Linux as well as for Windows, with the latter growing stronger every year as OpenStack gains more momentum in the enterprise world.
Microsoft's Windows Server / Hyper-V Server 2016 includes a lot of new cloud oriented features which are fully supported in an OpenStack infrastructure, including Storage Spaces Direct for hyper-converged deployments, Shielded VMs for the best guest isolation, Nano Server, a new networking stack and much more.
Windows as a guest on any hypervisor, including KVM, Hyper-V, ESXi, is also a great match for OpenStack thanks to Cloudbase-Init's large set of cloud provisioning actions and support for Heat templates, with lots of new features developed during the Ocata timeframe.
During this session we will talk about all the new OpenStack Windows and Hyper-V related features, demo some great use cases and provide answers to the most common questions about how to make the best out of Windows in OpenStack.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
3. Ben Armstrong
• I am Principle Program Manager at
Microsoft.
• I have been working on virtualization
for over a decade, and has worked on
products such as Virtual PC, Virtual
Server and Hyper-V.
• Right now I am focused on building
the next release of Hyper-V and
Windows Server containers.
• @VirtualPCGuy
4. Alessandro Pilotti
• CEO at Cloudbase Solutions
• Project lead for all the Windows and
Hyper-V integration in OpenStack
• Hyper-V MVP
• @cloudbaseit
16. Hyper-V Nova Compute
• Mature driver, available since Folsom
• http://cloudbase.it/openstack-compute-installer
• Rich feature set, Nova group B hypervisor
• Notable upcoming features:
• vNIC hot plug
• Compute, networking and storage QoS
• Failover clustering (hello pets!)
• vNuma
• vTPM (shielded VMs)
• UEFI SecureBoot (Windows and Linux)
• Fibre channel volumes
17. Neutron
• Hyper-V plugin is part of Neutron since Jan 2013
• Supported network types:
• VLAN
• Flat
• Local
• NVGRE
• Plugin / agent model
• ML2 plugin runs in neutron-server (controller)
• Agent runs on each Hyper-V compute node
18. Neutron
• Neutron ML2 agent works side by side with Open vSwitch!!
• You can use the OVS agent with Hyper-V agents (or vice versa)
• Limited to compatible L2 protocols: Flat / VLAN
• You can use the L3 and DHCP agents with the Hyper-V plugin
• Using the OVS L2 agent on the other networking nodes
• Great for interoperability (e.g. KVM + Hyper-V)
19. Open vSwitch on Hyper-V
• OVS has been fully ported to Hyper-V!
• community effort between Cloudbase Solutions and VMWare
• 2012 R2 and 2016
• Code available upstream: Apache 2
• Full CLI and OVSDB compatibility with Linux
• Available starting with OVS 2.4
• http://www.cloudbase.it/open-vswitch-on-hyper-v/
• Neutron OVS ML2 agent already ported to Windows
• Alternative to the Hyper-V native SDN stack
20. Cinder volume on Windows iSCSI / SMB3
• Cinder includes drivers for Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016
• iSCSI
• SMB3 (recommended for Hyper-V)
• Installer available for Windows
• Supports Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct (Calabria)
• http://www.cloudbase.it/cinder-volume-on-windows-storage-server-
2012/
• Deployment easily integrated with Puppet, Juju, Chef, SaltStack, etc
21. Keystone & Active Directory
• Keystone fully supports partial and full integration with Active
Directory
• AD is the 3rd most common backing store for Keystone deployments
todat
22. More Windows OpenStack support
• Ceilometer
• Compute inspector
• Manila
• Windows file server
• Coming in Liberty
23. Windows As A Guest - Windows Cloud-Init
• Cloudbase-init (aka Windows Cloud-Init)
• Similar to the Linux cloud-init
• License: Apache 2
• Upcoming Cloud-Init v2
• Full rewrite, merging Cloud-Init and Cloudbase-Init efforts and teams
• Supported data sources:
• OpenStack HTTP
• ConfigDrive
• EC2
• And more: CloudStack, OpenNebula, Ubuntu MAAS
25. Orchestration
• Heat templates
• Active Directory
• SQL Server
• SharePoint
• Exchange…
• Juju charms
• http://cloudbase.it/juju
26. v-magine
• Full OpenStack PoC made easy!
• Runs on Windows and Hyper-V
• Hyper-V 2012 R2 and 2016 TP3
• Windows 8.1 and 10
• Even on a Surface3!
• Just download and run:
• http://cloudbase.it/v-magine/
33. But you have your own Cloud Stack!
• Yes – and we would like you to use it
• However – we are happy to be part of any cloud computing platform
that you build
34. But you won’t support this!
• Yes – we will*
• We support Windows + Enterprise Server applications on any
virtualization platform that is part of the SVVP
(http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx)
• We do not make support statements about any management
software – we don’t need to. That is the point of an ecosystem
When it comes to applications, historically, IT administrators deployed with a 1:1 application to server ratio. When a new application was required by the business, it was deployed onto a newly provisioned physical system, to ensure no conflicts with existing applications and workloads. This resulted in a huge number of physical servers, all with very low utilization.
Fast forward to a more modern datacenter, where virtualization is now prevalent, and you’ll find significantly higher consolidation ratios, much greater utilization and significantly accelerated app deployment speeds as administrators deploy applications in minutes, compared with hours, days or weeks in a purely physical datacenter.
Compared with applications that ran on individual physical servers, the compatibility of those same apps to run inside virtual machines was typically very high. After all, the virtual machine just presents virtual hardware to the same operating system that was running in the physical world. The only consideration being, if that application or workload has a requirement for a specific piece of hardware, such as a PCI-E card, that couldn’t be virtualized and presented through to the guest operating system. In addition, once that application was encapsulated inside the virtual machine, it benefited from higher levels of redundancy, and also mobility, through features such as live migration.
There is however, a new and increasingly popular way to build, ship, deploy and instantiate applications. Containers can further accelerate application deployment and streamline the way IT operations and development teams collaborate to deliver applications to the business.
But what are containers? Well, to give the computer science definition, containers are an operating system-level isolation method for running multiple applications on a single control host. With developers building, and then packaging their applications into containers, and providing them to IT to run on a standardized platform, it reduces the overall effort to deploy applications, and can streamline the whole dev and test cycle, ultimately reducing costs. As containers can run on a host OS which itself could be physical or virtual, it provides IT with flexibility, and the opportunity to drive an increased level of server consolidation, all whilst maintaining a level of isolation that allows many containers to share the same host operating system.
So what are some of the core Windows Server container capabilities.
The first key takeaway, is that there is core functionality for containers, supported natively within the kernel, and they will be available in the next release of Windows Server.
Developers will use familiar development tools, such as Visual Studio, to write apps to run within containers. Instead of trying to backport existing applications, by building modular apps leveraging containers, modules can scale independently, and be updated on independent cadences, providing the developer with much greater flexibility and speed.
Applications can rely on other packages to provide core functionality. As you can see from the graphic, there are 2 containers that are sharing a number of libraries. In addition, when packaging, the packages also depend on a base package which describes the underlying operating system, such as Server Core, which has a large number of APIs that Windows supports, such as .NET, IIS etc. Nano Server is another, however this has a much smaller surface, that will target apps that have been written from the ground up, with the cloud in mind.
Containers are isolated behind their own network compartment. This can be provided a NAT DHCP or Static IP. Each container has an independent session namespace, which helps to provide isolation and additional security. The kernel object namespace is isolated per container.
Each container also has access to certain CPU and memory resources, along with storage and network capacity – these are controlled by the administrator, and ensures predictable and guaranteed control of processes.
These containers can be managed using tools such as PowerShell, or using the Docker management tools.