Devopsdays Austin 2017

Join us for a recap of DockerCon 2017 followed by a discussion around what bits *you* found interesting.

Come on out to learn about why a lot of companies are switching their communications protocols to gRPC from REST style services. The talk will cover the basics of GRPC, which is a high performance, open-source universal RPC framework. At the end of the talk, you'll get a quick primer of what are the components associated with gRPC, why you want to use it, and how to get started!

You will learn the principles and practices in using a continuous delivery pipeline with the modern version Microsoft Azure and the DevOps tools built for the platform. You will see how to stitch together Visual Studio Team Services with Azure PaaS components in order to create a software environment that flies! DevOps is a term representing the convergence of development and operations. Both the development and operations communities like to own the term, so it has accumulated multiple meanings. With the Agile Manifesto, developers have jettisoned annual software releases for processes that allow releasing software multiple times per day. To accomplish this, teams use rigorous suites of automated tests to ensure that every change to the software is a solid step forward rather than an accidental step backward.

Jenkins War Stories

As next generation containers, unikernels are an executable image that can run natively on a hypervisor without the need for a separate operating system. Just like containers, unikernels need packaging and orchestration.

Unik is an open source project providing compilation of libraries and applications into unikernels - lightweight bootable disk images). Unik also functions as an orchestration system for unikernels, handling unikernel scheduling and health monitoring.

We’ll walk through a project overview and demo of how Unik integrates as a backend to Cloud Foundry, as a runtime engine for Kubernetes, compute driver for OpenStack and other platforms. Unik utilizes a simple Docker-like command line interface, making building unikernels as easy as building containers.