DockerCon 2016

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Run Docker Containers. In Production. Today. by VMware

Do you find your IT Ops team to be a major bottleneck when deploying apps into production? Are you constantly being nagged by them about security, reliability, and management issues with your app? Join our talk to learn how you can use enterprise level persistent storage and secure networking with the Docker tools you love while satisfying the demands of IT Ops. At this talk, we will also introduce some of our open source technologies including: OVN (virtual networking and security project) and VIC (vSphere Integrated Containers) so that you can try them out today and give us your feedback.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Containers: Life Beyond Microservices?

Docker and microservices architecture have taken the software community by storm. Containerizing stateless applications is a no-brainer, but how about performance-sensitive stateful apps like databases and Hadoop? Must you compromise on performance and predictability for the love of containers?  

In this session we will discuss how the full-application-stack-containerization is not only possible, there are actually lots of advantages to it. We will also talk about how to build a pure-container infrastructure platform that can help containerize both your stateless and stateful apps, deliver guaranteed app-to-spindle performance, and bring agile DevOps practices to data. 

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.

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Data Persistence in the New Container World by EMC

Container-based infrastructure represents a substantial evolution in the way applications are developed, deployed and managed in production. They help organizations become more agile and cost effective. To date, most of the work with containers has focused on 12-factor and stateless applications, while neglecting stateful applications. EMC {code} is tackling the problem by giving enterprises the choice for stateful applications by integrating external storage the quickly moving container eco-system. Join us to hear how databases, caches and object stores can be containerized through open source projects and how managing the modern data center can be made both easier and effective. This session covers the current state of persistent storage, containers and schedulers, including future directions in this arena.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Application Deployment and Management at Scale with 1&1

1&1, Europe’s largest web hosting company, has been automatically deploying and managing multi-tenant server environments for 20 years. These servers support millions of active websites and services around the world. Historically software stacks were pre-installed using estimates of what was considered good, taking a ‘one size fits all’ approach. I am going to show how we are now combining Git, Gitlab, Openshift and Docker to revolutionise our approach to large scale hosting, providing greater power and flexibility without increasing support overhead. This includes showing:

· Transforming the legacy multi-tenant LAMP environment into many single-tenant Docker projects

· Managing thousands of projects on behalf of tenants 

· Gitlab CI for testing Docker containers

· Testing container interactions and upgrade cycle

 

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Dell Trials and Triumphs using Docker on Client Systems by Dell

Join engineers from ClusterHQ and Dell Storage to learn about persistent storage integration with Docker. See how Flocker enables native support for enterprise storage infrastructure use in containers, enabling you to leverage Dell storage for new workloads.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Structured Container Delivery by Accenture

With tools like Docker Toolbox, the entry barrier to Docker and containers is rather low. However, it takes a lot more to design, build and run an entire container platform, at scale, for production applications.

This talk will focus on why it is important to have a well-defined reference model for building container platforms that guides container engineers and architects through the process of identifying platform concerns, patterns, components as well as the interactions between them in order to deliver a set of platform capabilities (service discovery, load balancing, security, and others) to support containerized applications using existing tooling.

As part of this session will also see how a container architecture has enabled real projects in their delivery of container platforms.

Ecosystem Talk 1.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Networking for Microservices by Weaveworks

Ugly connectivity challenges in your development and production environments.
The good: Advances in container networking in the past year, including the emergence of “Micro SDNs” as the way to simplify Docker deployments
The bad: Understanding live network behavior and troubleshooting
The ugly: Multicast, security, robustness and resiliency at scale

In this talk you will learn how to weave Dockerized microservices together without tying yourself in knots or putting your head in a noose. You’ll learn how to effectively use micro SDNs, service discovery and request routing. You'll also see how to solve the bad and the ugly connectivity challenges in your development and production environments.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Take an Analytics-driven Approach to Container Performance with Splunk for Container Monitoring by Splunk

Docker containers add portability but can also introduce complexity into your environment. In this session learn about why monitoring your container environment is essential to maintaining service reliability, and how Splunk software can help you monitor different layers of infrastructure running in a Docker environment, including third-party tools, instances, and custom code.

Learn how to use Splunk software to collect, search and correlate container data with other infrastructure data for better service context, root cause monitoring and reporting. Additionally, receive introduction to the product integrations between Splunk and Docker such as the Splunk Logging Driver, Splunk Forwarder, and Splunk Logging Libraries.

Ecosystem Talk 1.
The Mushroom Cloud Effect or What Happens When Containers Fail? by Dynatrace

Micro service architectures result in up to 20 times larger environments than their monolithic counterparts. In such big and interconnected environments container metrics will tell you about infrastructure health but not service health. Even if you have implemented service health checks to quickly react on service failures, in a resilient system you will see intermediary mushroom cloud effects of a large number of services being affected temporarily. How do you find out what really caused the problem and how to distinguish effect vs. cause?

In this session we will do post-mortem analysis by walking through different cases of failures we've observed in a real-world large e-commerce production environment and show you how to figure out what actually caused the failures.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Chugging Our Own "Craft Brew” – HPE’s Journey Towards Containers-as-a-Service 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a vast IT organization that consists of 15k Dev + Ops professionals, operating in 11 countries, with hundreds of development teams working together on over 1000 projects. Millions of lines of code get changed every day, generating 20,000+ change request in an average year. And now, we’re on a journey to building a Docker environment for this massive organization, to serve the needs of our own multi-billion dollar enterprise. This session showcases our own learnings across multiple phases of our containerization project, with real life experiences from both the Dev and Ops perspectives. We’ll also talk about shared experiences from some of HPE’s customers. “Coding” our infrastructure with Docker, one application image, one deployment command, multiple deployment models – this is an “extreme” tale of how one of the world’s largest enterprises is fully embracing Docker. Stop by our session for a chance to win a gift certificate for a local Microbrewery – Bottoms Up! 

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Highly Available Persistent Applications in Containers by EMC {code}

Persistent applications are typically last on the list when it comes to container strategy, but the benefits that containers bring to general applications can go beyond what most recognize. Adding persistence extends the types of applications that can be containerized and opens the door to new opportunities for operating these applications. Getting there requires the right container platform that includes awareness of storage at all levels. Learn how they both play a critical role in making sure your new container strategy is inclusive of all applications. 

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Accelerating the Next 10,000 Clouds by Intel

In this session we will discuss how Intel has enabled hardware based security for container use cases. We will also demonstrate Clear Containers functioning in the latest Docker release and how you can use Clear Containers today. 

 

Ecosystem Talk 1.
Practical Container Security by Red Hat

You can secure your containerized microservices without slowing down development. Through a combination of Linux kernel features and open source tools, you can isolate the host from the container and the containers from each other, as well as finding vulnerabilities and securing data. Two of Red Hat's Docker contributors will discuss the state of container security today, covering Linux namespaces, SElinux, cgroups, capabilities, scan, seccomp, and other tools you can use right now.

Ecosystem Talk 2.
Managing Persistent Storage with Docker Containers by NetApp

The number and types of workloads with stateful data that can be run
in containers is expanding, resulting in a growing need for persistent storage. But up until now persistent storage models for containers have required a lot of manual and inconsistent intervention due to relatively immature implementations. There are a handful
of storage drivers and plug-ins available today that enable Docker-driven provisioning and management of persistent data volumes.

In this session and demo you will learn how to to:

• Deploy persistent storage for databases, CI/CD, big data, & many other workloads

• Provision storage on demand

• Provide highly available data for containers from multiple hosts using NAS or SAN

Ecosystem Session 1. 

Bi-modal IT: Bridge Traditional and Agile IT Services by SUSE

If you are in the shoes of traditional IT admin or developer and are looking to be more agile or run the data center in a more agile manner, containers provide the right vehicle. However, you also want the enterprise foundation for your infrastructure so you are not spending time supporting container environment. Learn about how you can collaborate securely to create Docker apps or integrate container applications with cloud or quickly deploy Docker using a minimized host OS.


Ecosystem Session 2.
Load Balancing for Container Cluster Managers by Citrix

Microservices- (and container-) based architectures rely on load balancers for resilience and scaling out. Load balancers need to be just as agile and programmable as any microservice. They need to be spun up on demand, be ephemeral, distributed, cheap and fast. Traditional form factors for load balancers are no match for these demands. Citrix Netscaler CPX is a containerized form-factor load balancer that offers the same APIs and features as the hardware-form-factor Netscaler. The hardware or virtual form factor Netscaler can be used for ingress traffic and the CPX can be used for inter-service traffic. When container cluster managers such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes are used, these load balancers can be automatically configured using state provided by the cluster managers. The talk will discuss the requirements for container load balancing and how Netscaler CPX together with other models of Netscaler can solve the load balancing problem.