Containers: What Every Developer Needs to Know about Docker & More!

Tuesday, 9:00 AM – BONNET

Containers have been a feature of the Linux kernel since 2007, and were in use behind the curtain at Google well before then. But developers, for the most part, did not know about or use them. Enter Docker in 2013, and all of a sudden if you’re not using containers, you’re no longer playing with the cool kids. Is it all hype? Or will you be deploying your applications in containers before you know it? This workshop will arm you with what you need to know and give you hands-on practical experience with container technology.

We’ll cover some (or all!) of the following topics:

  • Docker 101
  • Rocket and the App Container Spec
  • Container Scheduling: Lattice, Kubernetes, Marathon
  • Container Networking: Weave, SocketPlane
  • Container Data Management with BOSH
  • Service Discovery
  • Containers and Microservices
  • Continuous Delivery of Containers

Workshop Requirements

This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.

Please install Docker for your particular operating system by following the appropriate instructions:

Also, please install Lattice by following the instructions found here. You will need to complete the following sections of the “Getting Started” page:

  • Pre-Requisites for the Vagrant VM (if you installed Docker first, you should be OK here)
  • Starting the Lattice Vagrant VM
  • Fetching ltc – the Lattice CLI

There may be additional things that we’ll need to set up during the workshop, but these will give you an excellent head start!

About Matt Stine

Matt Stine

Matt is a technical product manager at Pivotal. He is a 15 year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, with experience spanning numerous business domains. He is the author of recently published Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures from O’Reilly, available as a free e-book download.

Matt is obsessed with the idea that enterprise IT “doesn’t have to suck,” and spends much of his time thinking about lean/agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles/patterns/practices, and programming paradigms, in an attempt to find the perfect storm of techniques that will allow corporate IT departments to not only function like startup companies, but also create software that delights users while maintaining a high degree of conceptual integrity. His current focus is driving Pivotal’s solutions around supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to OSCON to YOW!, is a five-year member of the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, and serves as Technical Editor of NFJS the Magazine. Matt is also the founder and past president of the Memphis Java User Group.

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