DockerCon 2016

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Persistent Data Patterns: Dockerize Your Database for Ultimate Power and Flexibility by Joyent

The database, and persistent services in general, often resist Dockerization. The reasons for this are numerous, but the question and desire remains: can we make Dockerized database deployment and scaling as easy and convenient as we’ve come to enjoy for stateless services? Yes we can!

This session will demonstrate real solutions that can be used today, including approaches we’re using to Dockerize a variety of database platforms, how we’re managing data lifecycle in addition to container lifecycle, and learn what works well and what still needs work. Like any good session, this one will reference public repos with things people can use now, while also demonstrating how we can run and scale databases faster and more simply in Docker.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Monitoring Containers at New Relic

New Relic went all-in with Docker very early, and has continued to stay on the forefront of the container ecosystem, both as a user of the technology and as a monitoring and analytics vendor. Today, a variety of teams utilize Docker in a variety of ways using a mix of home-grown and external OSS frameworks. The Container Fabric team is working on our next generation container platform utilizing Mesos/Marathon and a variety of other OSS tools, like Heka. We will briefly review our setup, and then discuss how we gather data that we care about from the ecosystem and inject it into the various tools we rely on for visibility and analytics. We love the functionality of what we’ve built, and we believe that you will find it useful too.