This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
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This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
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This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
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This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
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This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
Update January 3rd, 2022: Please see: The State of Enterprise Linux in 2022 Change is hard. Explaining that change in a way that makes sense is hard. Not getting frustrated when someone is explaining change to you, or while explaining it is hard. We are all human, so please be patient. But, before you
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This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
Updated 06/02/2020 Understanding Container Images To fully understand how to compare container base images, we must understand the bits inside of them. There are two major parts of an operating system – the kernel and the user space. The kernel is a special program executed directly on the hardware or virtual machine – it
Background I have used Linode for about 10 years now because the service and price are great. They are one of the most automated cloud providers and they invest in tools to do things like resizing existing VMs. It’s super useful for lab environments and experiments. As such, I wanted to use Linode for my
Like in the physical world of shipping containers, the OCI container image and runtime formats are critical because they allow for infrastructure and investment to happen among a bunch competing and collaborating entities. Vendors can invest in building an ecosystem of tools, orchestrators, registry servers, etc. Users can extract value from the ecosystem, move containers where
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