Container Portability: Part 1

Container Portability: Part 1

A Brief History in Code Portability Do you know why you can take a Python program and run it on any computer that has a Python interpreter on it? Well, because the computer industry has made a huge amount of investment into providing portability over the last 70 years. In the beginning, computers didn’t have

Why Portability is Not the Same Thing as Compatibility

Why Portability is Not the Same Thing as Compatibility

The Container Host *is* the Container Engine, and Container Image Compatibility Matters Have you ever wondered, how are containers are so portable? How it’s possible to run Ubuntu containers on CentOS, or Fedora containers on CoreOS? How is it that all of this just magically works? As long as I run the docker daemon on

Building an OpenShift Lab: Why I Used Atomic Host

Building an OpenShift Lab: Why I Used Atomic Host

RHEL Atomic Host requires a lot less configuration than a full RHEL Server installation. The docker daemon is installed and configured, storage is already setup to use device mapper on a dedicated LV, and the default tools necessary to install OpenShift are already installed. And as a bonus, the installation on my laptop in KVM virtual machines is about 10X as fast as installing a full RHEL installation.

Documenting the Experience: Moving Crunchtools to Containers/OpenShift: Part 1

Documenting the Experience: Moving Crunchtools to Containers/OpenShift: Part 1

Background Last week, I was in Westford, MA for an engineering meeting. I was chatting with one of our Base Runtime engineers Petr Sabata, and an interesting subject came up. He joked, “I understand containers, I know how to use them, but I still haven’t converted any of *my* services to containers.” This got me

OpenStack Smmit 2016: Barcelona: Container Defense in Depth

OpenStack Smmit 2016: Barcelona: Container Defense in Depth

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.

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Container Defense in Depth

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Container Defense in Depth

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.

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Containers for Grownups: Migrating Traditional and Existing Applications

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Containers for Grownups: Migrating Traditional and Existing Applications

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.

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Taming Container Fears

LinuxCon+ContainerCon Europe 2016: Berlin: Taming Container Fears

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.

Red Hat Tech Exchange 2016: Ho Chi Minh: Containers For Grownups: Migrating Traditional and Existing Applications

Red Hat Tech Exchange 2016: Ho Chi Minh: Containers For Grownups: Migrating Traditional and Existing Applications

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.